She's been like this for 15 years, the entire frontal lobe of her brain is gone and has been replaced with spinal fluid.
The only reason she moves and makes noises and has a hearbeat is because her brainstem is intact. Her EEG readings for the past 15 years have been completely flatlined. The woman is braindead, but her body doesn't know it.
FL state laws give the husband custody, and he has stated quite firmly that she wouldn't want to "live" this way. Her parents are fighting it.
The longest in recorded medical history that someone has been in a Persistent Vegetative State and come out of it was 6 months.
She has no conciousness, and is not aware that she is starving. It's not life support, but it's nearly the same thing.
