It sounds like he is already dead.
This isn’t about end-of-life at all: it’s about INSURANCE, I suspect. The “wife” may be greedy for the coming “funds”. She can get a new house and wardrobe. Of course, if there is no insurance, she just wants to be “rid” of the “burden”.
It's in all the textbooks.
There are many old wives tales about the brain and its ability to recover!
For instance - scientists are STILL finding out a lot about the brain:
“A study of the “miraculous” recovery of a man who spent 19 years in a minimally conscious state has revealed the likely cause of his regained consciousness.
The findings suggest the human brain shows far greater potential for recovery and regeneration then ever suspected. It may also help doctors predict their patients’ chances of improvement. But the studies also highlight gross inadequacies in the system for diagnosing and caring for patients in vegetative or minimally conscious states . . .
The team’s findings suggest that Wallis’s brain had, very gradually, developed new pathways and completely novel anatomical structures to re-establish functional connections, compensating for the brain pathways lost in the accident.
There were also significant changes between scans taken just two months after the recovery, and the most recent, at 18 months. Some of the new pathways had receded again, while others seem to have strengthened and taken over as Wallis continued to improve.
Krish Sathian, a neurologist and specialist in brain rehabilitation at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, US, describes it as an amazing finding. “The bounds on the possible extent of neural plasticity just keep on shifting,” he says.
“Classical teaching would not have predicted any of these changes.”
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9474-rewired-brain-revives-patient-after-19-years.html