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Old 11-24-2009, 04:44 PM
 
Location: New York
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaGBY...eature=popular

This is very scary, I would never want to be trapped in my body.
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Old 11-24-2009, 06:54 PM
 
Location: Universal City, Texas
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This was one of the lead stories on George Noory last nite. Very interesting. It shows the will to live!
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Old 11-24-2009, 07:02 PM
 
Location: 3rd rock from the sun
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I am a skeptic.

Comatose for 23 years Belgian feels reborn - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091124/ap_on_he_me/eu_belgium_coma_recovery - broken link)
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Assisted by a speech therapist who rapidly moved his finger letter by letter along a touch-screen keyboard, Houben told AP Television News that years of being unable to move or communicate left him feeling "alone, lonely, frustrated, but also blessed with my family."
The therapist, Linda Wouters, told APTN that she can feel Houben guiding her hand with gentle pressure from his fingers, and that she feels him objecting when she moves his hand toward an incorrect letter

Arthur Caplan, a bioethics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, said he is skeptical of Houben's ability to communicate after seeing video of his hand being moved along the keyboard.
"That's called 'facilitated communication,'" Caplan said. "That is ouija board stuff. It's been discredited time and time again. When people look at it, it's usually the person doing the pointing who's doing the messages, not the person they claim they are helping."
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