There's an investigative podcast — called "Room 20" — about a man, presumed to be in a vegetative state, unidentified & kept on life support for 15 years. The bulk of the series focuses on other issues, but I'm left horrified by one simple fact:
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I'm really fucked up over this and have no idea what can be done about it
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There's something else, central to the way the host frames the narrative: his identity is discovered, and he's undocumented; an illegal immigrant. She doesn't share his full name, because he would likely be deported, which would of course likely result in his death. Yeah.
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How did the man get in this condition? Were the state responsible?
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