Can't resist posting this
due to the spirited debate on the subject a few years ago, when the woman in FL was allowed to die while in a vegetative state.
In the end I agreed that she was brain dead and was rightfully allowed to die per her ex-husband's wishes over the objections of her parents. Now it is said that 40% of vegetative state cases are misdiagnosed
vegetative state
I am satisfied (hopeful) that in the case of the FL woman, she had been tested sufficiently to know that she was not the same as our Belgium man, but it does raise some questions about allowing the FL case to be considered any kind of precedent.