[Ohioan from Florida]

PVS is a shamefully hopeless diagnosis. It is one where the doctor decides there is nothing he can do, and so gives himself permission to give up trying.

I am more encouraged by the doctors who understand that there are stages of consciousness, and that we can be unconscious for a while, then emerge from it, and sometimes retreat back into it, only to (oftentimes) re-emerge.

I detest when they refer to PVS as a permanent condition. Only death is permanent.

[GrandEagle]

Only death is permanent.
I would only add that only death is known to be permanent by us. Since we, as humans, do not grant life we consequently have no authority to extinguish it except for cases specifically authorized by the granter of life.
In this nation we have removed the authority of Gods word from our public conciseness for long enough now that society no longer knows why it is wrong to kill. It is wrong because GOD said it is. Without that anchor, every moral decision is just opinion - and one opinion is just as valid as another. -- IMHO

Cordially,
GE