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

If we are talking about Fatal Familial Insomnia or it’s rare Sporadic version, it’s not the insomnia which kills. The insomnia is just a symptom of the patient’s central nervous system being destroyed by prions. Therefore even medically induced coma would not save the patient, prions gonna keep prioning.