Permanent Vegetative State: What is a body / a person?

Question: How do people live in Permanent Vegetative State?
Theme: Decisions in the face of unclear prospects

Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) describes a state between life and death that can lead equally to amelioration or decease. PVS-patients confront doctors, carers and relatives with difficult challenges. Can one treat them like other patients, or is it a form of terminal care—possibly over several years? Who ought to decide when this life is not worth living anymore?
Throughout the Mexikokirche, a fresco highlights the complex decision-making issues at stake for those who must cope with heavy disabilities.


 U1: Vorgartenstraße , Exit: Vorgartenstraße
Address: Mexikokirche (2., Mexikoplatz 12)
You can visit the module during the church's opening times: Mon-Sat 8.30am-6pm; Sun and bank holidays 12noon-6.30pm.
Module explainers are present Wed 5-8pm, Thu & Fri 3-6pm, Sat 12noon-6pm, Sun 12noon-6.30pm.