36 years in a vegetative state, force fed in a hospital:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8417549.stm
Somewhere in the universe there has likely evolved a planet where technology has advanced such that human bodies can be kept alive forever. There are no sentient ones left. Only billions of vegetative ones, all being kept alive by robots programmed to "do no harm".
Ain't it ever,
FD