Why not "If you detect I'm conscious figure out a method of communication and ask me if I want to die"?

There's a big difference between being conscious and being mentally competent to make choices like that.

Fair enough, if we can find a way to communicate, sure, let's try it, give it two weeks, then start the morphine drip kthxbye ;-)

In many places there is no way to kill someone ASAP. Just to let them starve and dehydrate until they die.

But if they can detect I'm thinking, they can detect at least binary differences between my mental state. Which means that I can communicate somehow.

> Just to let them starve and dehydrate until they die.

It's hard to do both of those things; you will die of dehydration before hunger is more than an inconvenience.

I guess you might think you have a chance of recovery? You don't know if you are doomed.

I mean I would "gladly" spend 2 years starring at the ceiling to see my son again etc. But there is probably a upper limit on the amount of years ... maybe they can induce coma somehow to make time pass and wake you up every month to see if things improve.

love the guys like you who assume nobody ever wakes up from coma.

By your logic lets pull the plug off everyone who has a minor incident leaving in coma for a few days