I see your uncomfortable little "fact" is being conveniently ignored. What a suprise.
Exactly. If she's just laying there like a cabbage as some claim --- there is no suffering at all. She's only taking up a small space in this world, she's not keeping Michael from a divorce. He can move on.
How about we ask it again:
OTOH, suppose she has cognition.
Suppose that she can't see, can't speak, can't hear, can't move, but her damaged nerve endings are communicating to her brain that she is in a burning lake of sulfur.