SUch a person is said to be in a vegetative state.

On April 21, 2009, he died after 3 years of being in a vegetative state.

For six years, she was believed to be in a vegetative state.

This is because they are smaller than the vegetative state.

The young boy was in a vegetative state after the car accident.

She had been in a vegetative state since a 1983 car crash.

Of five kids, three were killed, and one is in a persistent vegetative state.

The more accurate term would be a vegetative state, she knew.

"Have you ever seen a person in a persistent vegetative state?"

The patient, only 35, had been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years.