PVS, especially the term ‘vegetable’ should be abolished on moral grounds: It is an inherently dehumanizing term, as offensive as calling a race of people sub-humans or monkeys. Actually worse, as it is calling us to have less concern for humans than we do for domesticated animals.
No human being is a vegetable, and just as losing one’s limbs doesnt term a human into a worm, losing consciousness doesn’t turn a human into a cabbage.
You are so right about that, it’s not only dehumanizing but inaccurate medically and scientifically.