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Q: Mind working after body shuts down ?

asked by: jrw1992 on February 13th, 2009

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hello my mother past this year from viral meningitis/sceptacimia in a week but i would like to know when she was on the life support machine fighting for her life for 2 days is her mind still thinking and listening but her body just shut down like a coma???

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