Vegetative used in a sentence

Vegetative in a sentence as an adjective

Or a drug that causes permanent brain damage to the point of vegetative state but saves your life?

This also means picking my vegetative self up off the couch when I want to switch what I'm playing.

This is a great argument against "pulling the plug" on folks in vegetative states.

You don't pull the plug on those in a vegetative state. They have brain activity and a functioning brain stem -- generally they're just on a feeding tube.

If you ever end up in a persistent vegetative state, it's grueling for your family & loved ones. We now have the tech to keep you sort-of alive for many years, but it's not cheap, of course.

My father spend in vegetative state only 48 hours - and the load was unbearable. Having to live with that for months or years - I am sure that no person would like to cause that to their children and relatives.

You misunderstand, it isn't selfish to want it for yourself, but it is selfish to keep someone else alive in a vegetative state. It is so easy to choose 'life' as the correct and right thing when in fact 'death' is the natural and moral thing.

How about providing some kind of long-term healthcare insurance that would cover people in a vegetative state for many years? Or just making it all open and informing people as much as possible what's going on around them?

If we are in a vegetative state, have dementia, Alzheimer's, and other diseases of old age... it might be better off to let someone peacefully die.

If you're a leader, a successor might pick up the torch and rally the troops in your memory, so in that sense, a dead person's memory/personality may be more "alive" than one in a persistent vegetative state. Case and point, Ariel Sharon.

It was hard not to get choked up looking at their smiling, happy faces as they ran around, thinking that if this therapy hadn't existed, they would be in a nearly vegetative state. Gene therapy had a rough start with the early setbacks, but I'm getting the sense that the tide is rapidly turing.

I can't imagine myself being both conscious and in a vegetative state without experiencing a lot of psychological distress.

He bred for semi-dwarf traits, which allow most of a plant's energy to go towards creating grain rather than vegetative mass. How is this inefficient? Why would it be more optimal for us to dump fertilizer and use agriculture space and have it go towards vegetative mass rather than something that feeds people?

> An autopsy on Terri Schiavo backed her husband’s contention that she was in a persistent vegetative state, finding that she had massive and irreversible brain damage and was blind

People all over Europe have learned to drive cars with manual transmissions - because after the initial pain, the vegetative nervous system kicks in and the wheel, the pedals, the gear switch, all of them become a natural extension, of which you don't think about anymore, just like breathing. And if automatic transmissions are great too, that's because they stay out of your way.

"People all over Europe have learned to drive cars with manual transmissions - because after the initial pain, the vegetative nervous system kicks in and the wheel, the pedals, the gear switch, all of them become a natural extension, of which you don't think about anymore, just like breathing. And if automatic transmissions are great too, that's because they stay out of your way."

Someone in the comments made a good point: People saw the vegetative David as "asleep" so, does not have the ability perform any of those mental tasks, while religious people see the soul of dead David still there, and "agree" the dead David could still perform those mental tasks.