[gibrown]

Everything you just said also applies to amputating a limb. Or cutting out a cyst. Those seem like much closer analogies than a person in a coma.

[guerrilla]

Other than the potential to be independent which the two share, yes, I think that does support my point. We have no need to reclassify limbs as "not alive" in order to have good reason to amputate them. Doing so would be seen as quite neurotic.