[lit-ideas] Re: Right to Life, Right to Die

  • From: Carol Kirschenbaum <carolkir@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:00:27 -0800

> CK:  You've probably read or heard about people being
>
> fully conscious but "locked-in"--the Poe terror.
>
> A.A. Try the movie The Awakenings (1990).  It's a true story.  Exactly on 
> this topic.

carol:  Not locked in, not exactly on this topic. "Awakenings" concerns a 
group of hospital patients with plastic catatonic features. The L-dopa 
experiment that Oliver Sachs conducted was on Parkinson's patients. They 
were not "locked in." They were not conscious times three (aware of self, 
others, and environment) before Sachs administered L-dopa. There are some 
dramatized accounts of the locked-in syndrome, though. James Hillman, author 
and shrink, was locked in after a stroke, and wrote about the experience 
afterwards. Does anyone recall the name of that memoir?
Carol
 



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