“Who gets to decide who is worthy of life and who is not? You? God forbid!”
The state that woman was in was not life, not by a long shot. You go lie there with no consciousness for 17 years and then tell me all about how its life. It’s not, it’s torture.
You have not experienced whatever she has experienced. And if you think starving and thirsting to death is preferable, this is proof that your conscience is dead.