[shhrubbery!]

If you consider being imprisoned in a hospital bed, taking your nourishment through a tube, and being helpless to even move a finger as "life", then fill out your Living Will accordingly

But what if, with therapy, you could begin to eat again, could move your fingers again, could communicate and interact with the world again?

What if doing so would enable you to hold your first grandchild?
Or to see your daughter graduate from college?
Or to see your son come home from war?

Terri needs therapy, not death.

[strela]

But what if, with therapy, you could begin to eat again, could move your fingers again, could communicate and interact with the world again?

Yes, but in your hypothetical situation, HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE FOR ME TO MAKE IT TO THAT POINT? I'm not interested in spending 15 years attached to a tube being completely immobilized in order to have the slim chance of being able to move a finger or a toe later on down the road. Sorry, that's not just for me. Pass me my 9mm please, and leave the room.

[huck von finn]

But what if, with therapy, you could begin to eat again, could move your fingers again, could communicate and interact with the world again?

Your optimism is admirable, but without the cerebral cortex, this kind of rehabilitation is impossible. It's like expecting an amputated leg to grow back.