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Before you casually dismiss it as a worthless idea, consider that some victims have fewer capabilities than Bauby was left with.


If a person has lost all capability such that they cannot even blink or move their eyes, I’m not sure what else they could do to communicate. Breathing?

I don’t think the idea is worthless, just not worth as much as what others may think.


I'd genuinely want to be euthanised in this situation. But that's a whole other debate.


Nobody asked for that opinion here, and it's not relevant to the conversation.




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