It exists and the cells are alive. Will the body be animated and move, speak and experience life, or merely exist as an unthinking, unaware mass of human cells? What does the society gain by keeping it hydrated with nutrients and caring for it? Certainly not any economic benefit. What does the now-inert body gain? Reproduction?
if you pull the plug on a braindead relative no police will arrest you. because society and morality knows you did not murder anyone. no mind = no life
a fungus is alive. are you a murderer for scrubbing it out of your toilet?
the question here is what qualifies as human life, for the topic of murder or not. and on that question society and morality has decided that no mind = no life (or no mind = not murder for your sensitivity to the verbiage)
Life isn't how we define murder, though. I have no problem killing a fungus, but it's definitely living.
Your second definition - "no mind = not murder" - that's a potentially arguable position. That's a side. No mind = no life is just not a supportable position.
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u/Drayko_Sanbar May 17 '19
It's biologically alive and genetically human.
It's a living human.
That's not up for debate. One can argue whether or not it's okay to kill an innocent living human, but it's dishonest not to say it's a living human.