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in people with severe depression that is refractory to
other medications because you want to see if a different
area of the brain is involved because that might eventually
lead to new drugs but it is not going to benefit that
particular patient and the test, which is getting a fancy
x-ray, may scare them.
It is hard for me to imagine how you do that
research if you say it is only going to be on people who
have given a research advance directive or whatever you
call it. Realistically we are not going to do that
research. If we are willing to say that we do not care, we
are not going to do that research and accept the downstream
consequences that is okay. But I think to say that, you
know, we can make this -- I mean, I would like to believe
we can make it happen because we are going to be committed,
we are going to realize it is important and we are going to
mobilize the activists, I am not sure it is going to
happen.
MR. CAPRON: Would you be of the view that Eric
expressed that the statement you have just made is an
empirical statement that ought to at least be studied
before we reach the conclusion negative to the use of the
directives? In other words, if you are saying that this is
a requirement which is a veiled way of stopping all