Woman who suffered cardiac arrest and entered a persistent vegetative state, becoming the center of a major legal battle over end-of-life decisions involving federal and state governments.
"So I fell down a rabbithole of wikipedia articles (Bush v. Gore -> FL Supreme Court decisions -> Terri Schiavo) and ended up reading about her. For the uninitiated she was a woman who had a heart attack and slipped into an irreversible vegetative state. Her brain weighed less than half of that of a "
"The phrase 'Veg out' sounds weird to me. Terri Schaivo was in a vegetative state and I was picturing a doctor describing her as 'vegging out'. Second half is just asking if a gay guy was in a coma would he be considered a vegetable or a fruit."