Re: Vegetative states and neuroscience

[Doyle Saylor <djsaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Pen 'ellers,
Carrol wrote,
You have just given me a very good reason for what one might call
pre-emptive suicide. Kill oneself before one loses the ability to
communicate but not the ability to feel pain.

Doyle,
First I forgot to give the radio identification; KPFA, 94.1 fm in Berkeley.
This is a tangent but I wonder if our radio program, Pushing Limits, could
call you sometime and talk to you about depression?  I'm not sure a show on
the disability, depression, has to go along with committing suicide, but
what produces depression in people, and how people learn to cope with
depression is very interesting about building a social movement.

I'm talking to a bi-polar person about producing a program in this area.
Even if you don't want to be a guest, if you had some ideas about exploring
in this area from a left perspective I think that would be important and
welcome contribution to our work.  Just to be clear I am a high functioning
depressed person I've come to accept about my life.  I can't work on the
left without that having a big impact on being a leftist.
thanks,
Doyle