Living wills can also be used if a person becomes permanently unconscious.

To be considered permanently unconscious, two physicians must determine that the patient has no reasonable possibility of regaining consciousness or decision-making ability.

Lacking a cortex, it is permanently unconscious, without sensation or cognitive functions.

Uncontrollable, violent humans are kept permanently unconscious or sedated, and left to live their natural terms.

One is that the patient has been permanently unconscious or vegetative for two or three years.

Accordingly, no award can be made under this head where the plaintiff has been rendered permanently unconscious.

And they can maintain the bodies of people who are permanently unconscious.

There are now 5,000 to 10,000 permanently unconscious people in this country.

Still, the courts are grappling with the rights, status, proper treatment of the permanently unconscious.

The conditions of the will would be put into effect if the person is dying, permanently unconscious, or conscious but with irreversible brain damage.