Originally Posted by
darrowdisciple
In presenting widely accepted evidence to what appear to be people imperious to fact, I feel like the young medical resident doing the mandatory portion of her rotation on the psych ward, and was talking with a schizophrenic who was convinced he was dead. No amount of conversation, logic, or reasoning could convince him that he was not dead. So, the doctor had an idea. "Dead people can't feel things, can they?" she asked. "Of course not," he replied. So, she took her pen, and poked him in the hand. He flinched, and said "Ouch." The doctor said, "You felt that, didn't you? So, you can't be dead, right?" The patient paused for a moment, and then responded, "Well, I guess dead people CAN feel things."