we cannot know what the comatose feel... but in this italian case as in terry schiavo’s case, they were vegetative as opposed to comatose...i.e. awake and aware...and dehydration and starvation is a painful way to go, read accounts of people who have been through starvation and dehydration..it’s not an easy way to go.. if right-to-die people were that concerned, then why don’t they just overdose with a sleeping aid to make it truly painless? because none of them want to take responsibility for actually causing someone to die.
Yes, I know that it’s horrible to suffer dehydration and starvation when fully awake and aware. What is needed is an account by someone who experienced these things in a vegetative state and then regained consciousness. One reason people gave for opposing the withdrawal of water and food from Eluana Englaro was because she might have regained consciousness, right? So that must have happened in the past, or there wouldn’t be reason for hope. What do people say about the period when they were in a vegetative state?