According to a recent study by the Mind Perception and Morality Lab at the University of Maryland, people view patients in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) as worse off than patients who have died. Published online in Cognition (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027711001752), the study consisted of three experiments. Here is the Abstract: “Patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS) may be biologically alive, but these experiments indicate that people see PVS as a state … [Read more...] about Persistent Vegetative State Seen as Worse than Death
