Don Herbert has proven that one can come out of a PVS or minimially concious state and have all one's memory intact. Don Herbert is still there!
These cases aren't dead end, never getting better cases, end of story cases. At any time, as with Don Herbert, we will find the right treatment that will bring these people out of the dream world they are in.
AND we will never be able to bring any of them back or learn anything from them to help others if we kill them off like animals.
So we should just keep everyone alive, indefinitely, although modern medice ... right now ... says they are untreatable? Correct?
"AND we will never be able to bring any of them back or learn anything from them to help others if we kill them off like animals."
Actually we treat them worse than animals. If there is someone who is willing to adopt a stray pet at an animal shelter, the shelter lets them have it. Terri's parents wanted to take care of her, and they weren't allowed, Terri was killed, despite having a loving family, who was willing to take care of her.
That's worse treatment, than that of a stray animal.
The court just showed that the life of a disabled person is not only worth less than that of a stray animal, but that it's good for society to kill of the disabled members. And this is civilization?