The dead more alive than the vegetative?

The dead more alive than the vegetative?: In interviews with researchers about hypothetical car-accident victims, study participants attributed less “mind” to those left in a PVS than to those who had “passed away” or lay in a coffin in a cemetery. As the title of the study puts it, people in a PVS are “more dead than dead.” People trapped in this state are not actually dead, of course. According to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, these people are “alive but unable to move or respond to his or her environment.”

Editor: This article calls Terri Schiavo the "most famous" example of a person in a PVS. I believe that designation is in dispute.

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