But the point isn't whether she will recover, but whether it is ethical to stop her life merely because she isn't self-aware.
She's alive, young, and strong. She feels pain. She's a human being.
The amount of effort it takes to keep her well at the present time isn't very great, and her family - parents and siblings - are willing to do it.
If she were my child, in that same state, I'd be willing to make that same effort, and the same for my husband.
I know some wouldn't, but that's not due to ethics, it's due to having other things they'd rather do, or need to do. They say they'd rather die than be in that state, but most people actually cling quite tenaciously to life when it's their own life.
And now with all the new ways of prolonging life we have all these slippery slopes.
If you don't believe that euthanasia is evil, take a good look at Dr. Kevorkian. Look deep into his eyes. To me, he looks evil.
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