Whether it is useful and appropriate to attempt to educate the most severely disabled children, such as children who are in a persistent vegetative state, is debated.
After she collapsed and stopped breathing twice for 15 minutes or more, the paramedics arrived and took her to a hospital, where she lapsed into a persistent vegetative state.
These actions resulted in his falling into a persistent vegetative state, in which his brain was unable to even regulate the autonomic functions of his body.
She was taken to the hospital where it became clear that this time she had suffered severe enough brain injury to produce a persistent vegetative state.
