[supercat]

How come no one ever shows the pictures of her lying there, in a vegetative state, for 99.9999% of the past 15+ years? Instead, all there is are a few stills from a few videos that are meant to deceive people into thinking that she reacts like this all day, every day.

Someone who is vegetative 99.9% of the time and alert 0.1% of the time is not PVS.

[PFKEY]

Someone who is vegetative 99.9% of the time and alert 0.1% of the time is not PVS.

What is it you are arguing here? What do you mean by PVS?

It seems to me that PVS means a person can't communicate it doesn't say anything about whether or not they are conscious. That is to say that they are able to think to themselves but just can't talk or write or gesture what they are thinking.