The Coma Girl Brain Transplant

"Rosie? Rosie?! Don't play games with me 'Rosie' I know exactly who you are!" he said threateningly.

He grabbed me by the throat and I almost collapsed with fear.

"You are the bastard who is responsible for all of this! Look at yourself. How can you even call yourself a man?" he said and, under the circumstances, I tended to agree. He slapped me across the face, let go of me and then turned to the bedridden patient.

"Look at my dearest Julia. Twenty-five years of age and she was the hottest nurse in this wing of the hospital. Now, she is merely a vegetable," he said regretfully.

"No, she is the prettiest little vegetable in this wing of the hospital!" I said defensively, to a scornful raised eyebrow from Dr Finch.

"We should have turned the life support off ages ago. There is zero brain activity and zero hope of recovery. I was keeping her here in the hope that we might find a donor," he admitted.

"A donor? What kind of donor?"

"A brain donor. Colleagues from my former institute have pioneered a new method of brain transplant and have had 99% success rate," he explained, dramatically taking her limp hand in his, "but the ethics committee have very strict criteria and it's hard to fulfil all the requirements to give the required permission to go ahead."

I knew that medical and scientific ethics had taken a knock a few years previous when it was discovered that the Israeli government had used DNA to clone a couple of hundred Hitlers and were systematically torturing them in camps. Although the United Nations disagreed with the morality of the camps they stopped short of demanding the release of the Hitler clones and instead the reality gameshow 'Camp Hitler' was born. Even the harshest of ethical critics softened their stance when they saw the crazy weekly challenges facing the Hitler clones and it was universally credited as 'the show which saved television'. This led to a further ethical backlash and a tightening of the rules for even the simplest of scientific procedures, such as brain transplants.