Sentences with phrase «live in a vegetative state»

The church that does not die chooses instead to live in a vegetative state on artificial life support.

Today, Zeda is fed through a gastric tube, breathes through a tracheotomy, and lives in a vegetative state in the living room of her mother's home.

At worst, they can lead to coma, life in a vegetative state, or death.

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How can we have a president who thinks birth control is satanic or rejects the use of science to detect early fetal issues to save the life of the mother and / or potentially prevent a baby born in a vegetative state?

Mr. Wright made it clear from the beginning that his main concern was whether or not Steven was in a «permanent vegetative state» and thus had no chance for a «meaningful life.»

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On life support for 15 years until her court - ordered death, she was in a permanent vegetative state (VS), with a flat EEG (electroencephalograph) reading, indicative that her cortex had stopped working.

In The Descendants, Clooney's character is faced with a life altering moment that his wife must be pulled from life support per her request written in her will should she ever be in a vegetative statIn The Descendants, Clooney's character is faced with a life altering moment that his wife must be pulled from life support per her request written in her will should she ever be in a vegetative statin her will should she ever be in a vegetative statin a vegetative state.

Trapped in a vegetative state for 14 years, Wolfenstein hero B.J. Blazkowicz awakens to a 1960 dominated by Nazis and a life no - longer solely defined by the killing of them.

In 2011, the United States Supreme Court refused to hear the case of Staff Sergeant Dean Witt, an airman who entered a vegetative state during a 2003 appendectomy and was taken off of life support by his family three months later.

Even 10 days after the crash, doctors told her family members she might be in a vegetative state her whole life, which would have meant her ability to interact with others would have been severely limited.

Our team has extensive experience in field of «serious medical treatment», having recently acted in cases concerning Obstetric / gynaecological treatment for women with mental health difficulties; Withholding or withdrawing artificial nutrition and hydration from a person in a permanent vegetative state or a minimally conscious state; Organ or bone marrow donation by a person who lacks capacity to consent; Non-therapeutic sterilisation of a person who lacks capacity to consent and Life - saving but invasive surgical treatment.

For nearly 16 years, Schiavo existed in a vegetative state while her parents and her spouse battled in court over her end - of - life care.