So we should keep bodies alive in the hopes that someday they'll wake up minimally for a few days. See, I think that's torture. But that's me.
And on who's authority says too kill the person?
Just a thought, the firefighter speaking now, would HIGHLY disagree with you.
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.
Yes and you get to decide about you - not others who may think differently. That is fair.
Terri's family and the nurses maintained all along that Terri responded to them, so Terri was NOT "just a body".
Also, I read that the fireman was actually in worse shape than Terri, he couldn't swallow his own salive, Terri could.
And yes, they should be kept alive......