vegetative

Terri Schiavo, on the other hand, was in a vegetative state.

“So settled, so still, so serene / Completely vegetative, cumcumbive, or potative, non-communicative, and green …” Bonkers.

The doctors told her to get busy and find a nursing home, as the prognosis was “a vegetative state at best.”

While not brain-dead, the 81 year old exists in a persistent vegetative state.

From the animal soul there likewise issued a splendor, which produced the vegetative soul.

From the vegetative soul proceeds again a splendor, from which is made the sphere (the heaven).

Next to the soul comes the Sphere (the heaven), which arises in the horizon and shadow of the vegetative soul.

Hence the splendor of the vegetative soul is undoubtedly brighter than that of the sphere, which comes from its shadow.

Thus we are told that the soul consists of three powers, or three souls, the vegetative, the animal and the rational.