May 28, 2004

A POWER WE AREN'T COMPETENT TO WIELD:

'Drowned' toddler returns to life (Associated Press, May 28, 2004)

A hospital worker preparing a drowned toddler for a funeral home noticed the boy was breathing - more than an hour after he had been pronounced dead.

Logan Pinto, who is 22 months old, apparently wandered away from his baby sitter Thursday and fell into a canal near his home in Rexburg, about 275 miles east of Boise. He was submerged for nearly 30 minutes before police found him a half-mile downstream, said Rexburg police Capt. Randy Lewis.

Though an officer gave him CPR and emergency workers did everything they could to revive him, Lewis said, the boy was pronounced dead when it appeared the effort had failed. After giving the boy's mother and stepfather - Debra and Joe Gould - some time to say goodbye, Madison Memorial Hospital nurse Mary Zollinger began to prepare Logan's body for the funeral home.

But when she looked at the boy, she noticed his chest was slightly moving and realized that Logan was alive.


Yet we want to let people kill the unconscious?

Posted by Orrin Judd at May 28, 2004 3:13 PM
Comments

Depends on how brain-damaged this kid turns out to be...

The parents may rue the day their child semi-survived.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at May 29, 2004 9:59 AM

Michael:

Absent intolerable pain, what parent would rue the survival of his or her child, and why?

Posted by: Peter B at May 29, 2004 8:08 PM

Because bed-ridden vegetables aren't children, they're human cell colonies.

Talk to people who work in nursing homes, or hospice, or those who've put relatives in. They know that often what's left is a shell that used to be someone.

The fairly nutty Heaven's Gate cult did get one thing right: We are, among other things, vessels.

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at May 31, 2004 7:17 AM

Ah, the necessary step towards genocide, declare a class of beings to not be human...

Posted by: oj at May 31, 2004 8:26 AM

Yes, let's instead follow the example of some Native American tribes, and regard weathered bones as a "person".

Posted by: Michael Herdegen at May 31, 2004 2:53 PM
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