Likely not, however the dx of PVS is a dx of convenience and economy nonetheless.
That is agood point - but the comparisons to Schiavo here are not correct. To say that because this boy 'snapped' out of it, doesn't mean Schiavo would. She was irreversibly brain damaged as shown by the autopsy. Clearly this boy didn't have the same physical evidence for his diagnosis that Terri did.