Years of efforts to no avail woke him up. Trying experimental therapies as a last resort woke him up. Going to nursing school in an effort to help Terri woke him up. You people cannot rationally discuss this and must fall back on ludicrous attacks on him, the judges, the doctors, the hospice and anyone not willing to accept the opinon of cranks.
When I knew little of the case it was such attacks as that which convinced me that there was something afoot and it wasn't good. Then the conspiracy theories cinced it.
The award in the negligence case was the memory trigger. The timeline is very clear, and the first guardian ad litem stated the obvious conflict of interest of MS and was therefore promptly removed.