Marginal Revolution points to a disturbing Reuters article about a man in France whose brain has been crowded out of his head. This man’s IQ of 75 calls to mind something Evan Kirchhoff wrote following the Schiavo affair:

[...] let me lob an early grenade and run away: my dark suspicion about the battle of Schiavo was that we witnessed the awesome legal and medical reverence for the individual will of the patient that will tend to hold in precisely those instances where the patient happens to express the “correct” decision (death!), as determined by the kind of intellectuals who would rather be dead than lose 20 IQ points, let alone suffer gross mental impairment to a level somewhere between that of a lobster and a paralyzed gerbil.

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