We should also note that we keep people living in vegetative states for no other reason than our own selfishness.

I speak from experience, my gran whom raised me was in old folks home.

To be clear in the unit for heavy dementia patients, I tried to go there at least once a weak.

She stayed there for a good for 4 years and she only deteriorated mentally and she had kidneys problems, arthritis( hands often swollen red). She cried for my father( he had already died from cancer in the previous years) and thought somebody stolen for her infant son.

I may sound cold but somebody offered to me to mercy kill, I would have. Why? My gran was a proud woman all her life and seeing her shit and piss herself made rethink the whole health system. In french, her case would be called acharnement thérapeutique. It's nothing noble.

She could have still live a year or two but a doctor ask me if we should put her on life support.

I said no, she already was in 87 year, she suffered from arthritis the last 10 years, dementia kicked in, my thoughts were not for me but for her.

Everybody deserves a decent death and not got out like a plant.