Comatose Ariel Sharon spends weekend at home

[Liberal_in_LA]

Comatose Sharon moved home for weekend

From Michal Zippori, CNN
November 12, 2010 -- Updated 1154 GMT (1954 HKT)

Jerusalem (CNN) -- Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma since 2006, was moved from a hospital in Tel Aviv to his home Friday morning with no change in his condition.

He will spend the weekend at his home in southern Israel before returning to the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, said Amir Marom, a hospital spokesman.

A small medical team will accompany him to his home in the Sycamore Ranch in Negev.

The hospital intends to make similar weekend trips for the next several weeks to prepare for the possibility of having him stay there permanently. The short stays will help family members adjust, Marom said.

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Gissin said a special sterile room has been created in the house. Several other modifications have been made to make it suitable for his stay, he said.

Sharon has been in a coma since he suffered a massive stroke in January 2006.

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/11/12/israel.sharon.condition/index.html?hpt=T2

[Madam Mossfern]

1. Bizarre

That's all I can say.
I hope this is at his family's expense.

[ingac70]

2. Israel has National Health Insurance.

The rest of the world ain't fucked up like here.

[Gin]

3. if he is in a coma...does he know he is home? weird,,,

[Posteritatis]

4. He's been gone since 2006, pretty much

The structures in his brain that made him him have been destroyed. Sharon hasn't been "home" in either sense of the term since then, and never will be again in the way that matters. There but for the grace of god and all that...

Things like this are likely more for the family's comfort, which I can respect in this sort of situation.