And now, to my shock, a hospice nurse, who had never met my wife and who had met me just minutes before, was telling me that she was sure my wife would never want to be a vegetable.

Had I possession of my wits at that moment, I would have replied: “Ma’am, let me assure you, my wife will never be a vegetable. She is and will always be a human being.” Human beings do not turn into vegetables. (Nor, for that matter, do they turn into beasts or angels; but that’s another story for another time.)

Read the article “Human Beings Do Not Become “Vegetables”” on nationalreview.com.