Why fatal insomnia patients are not put to rest through general anesthesia?

Question

If they are unable to sleep and rest until they die from exhaustion, wouldn’t they just forcibly fall asleep through the power of general anesthesia?

In: 1975

Answer 1

There’s a very interesting book on this topic, fatal insomnia or FFI which stands for Fatal Familial Insomnia, it’s called The family that couldn’t sleep