A Vegetative State The other night, my wife and I were watching TV when the newscaster announced the death of Dr. Jack Kervorkian. So we started to talk about suicide, assisted suicide, and the right to death. The discussion led to being hooked up to a machine that was keeping you alive. I told her, ""Honey, I never want to live in a vegetative state like that. Dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle to keep me alive. If that ever happens to me, please pull the plug."" She got up and …