Any expression of their desire is just conjecture. Tsao Chin, the general director of the Creation Social Welfare Foundation, who has cared for permanently comatose patients for more than 10 years, holds that these patients are unlike those with advanced cancer. They are not necessarily nearing death and are not suffering, and they are certainly not doers of evil deeds who must be executed to protect other people's lives and property.
投身植物人照護工作十餘年的創世社會福利基金會董事長曹慶認為，植物人不同於癌症末期病患，他們沒有死期、也沒有痛苦的感覺；更不是罪大惡極、必須剝奪其生命以維護多數人生命、財產安全的罪犯，安樂死對他們而言並不人道。