Deaths in GR

[Tim Ware]

"persistent vegetative state" is a medical term, not a legal term.  It  
describes hunks of formerly sentient flesh.

TW

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On Tue, 14 Mar 1995 John.Hamill at vuw.ac.nz wrote:

> If we're going for a body count... we musn't forget the bodies that Pokler
> finds at Dora.  The anonymous female body he gives his wedding ring to is
> of course *just* alive, the ring being a contribution to the long ride home...
> but wasn't there a few *other* corpses lying around?  
> 
> Whether any of these die "in" the novel is an interesting question... not 
> in the sense of an Elizabethan play's death-throe-speech anyway.
> 
> On a more flippant note... my vote is that Slothrop at the end has reached
> what lawyers who want to flip the switch in intensive care call a 
> "persistant vegetative state". 
>