Men and women created in the image of God, and called “vegetables” as though they weren’t. Horrible indeed.
Such dehumanizing names make it easier to dismiss, ignore, mistreat, and even kill them. All thanks to “modern medicine”.
Clearly, we need to somehow become better at figuring out who is still lucid inside an unresponsive body, and who is actually “gone” with a body that is then just a meat machine with nobody home.
The decisions about what to do about those things are not uncomplicated.