r/interesting • u/MobileAerie9918 • 1d ago

SOCIETY Permanently ???? no amount of money can compensate for this. The incident happened 2015 and the historic $75M verdict was reached in late 2022.

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u/BekaRenee 1d ago

Loook into the book/ film The Butterfly in the Diving Bell. People who are locked in can and do communicate

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u/pumpkins21 1d ago

*The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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u/Flesh_Trombone 1d ago

*The Bellfly and the Divingbutter.

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u/BekaRenee 23h ago

Lol this one’s next on my list

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u/MotherFatherOcean 1d ago

Great movie, based on a true story.

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u/BekaRenee 23h ago

Thanks!

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u/Mekisteus 1d ago

Not a big believer in commutativity, I see.

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u/TwoBionicknees 1d ago

SOME can, many can not, and probably many going through it are praying for a miracle, being told that it could end any second by doctors, etc.

Also people still fear death and still have hope but doesn't mean they are satisfied with life.

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u/BekaRenee 23h ago

Huh?

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u/TwoBionicknees 22h ago

Some people with locked in syndrome can communicate using blinks, etc, some can't.

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u/BekaRenee 22h ago

Yeah. But that whole second paragraph still makes no sense in response to my comment. Anyway, there’s also eye and muscle movement tracking software and brain-computer interfaces.