Aristotle Classification of Life

This Classification of life is based on Aristotles 3 principles of life.  At level 1, anything living can reside there because everything living can grow and decay.  At level 2, humans and animals can go there because we are able to voluntarily move and perceive our environment.  Vegetable (I mean PLANTS) stays at level 1 because most plants can not move or perceive.  Level 3 is specifically reserved for humans because we are the only living species that can cognate.  What does this have to do with Terri Schiavo?  I'm glad I asked.  In her coma state, she could not function properly.  The autospy proves that she could not think, move, or perceive.  According to Aristotle, she would be classified as a plant, hence the term "vegetative state".  Ending her life in that state would be the eequivalent to ending the life of a cucumber.  In her perspective, she was dead because she really did not have any sense of perspective, much like a vegetable.  From the outside, she was just a mountain of cells failing to function properly.  For those who believe every human has a soul, the soul already left her body.  What is left (as in what people are debating to keep alive) is a carcass trying to biologically function.  After Queen Anne Boleyn was beheaded, her eyes rolled and her face twitched.  Was she still alive when they cut off her head??!!? NO!!!! There was remaining stimuli within her faace that caused her muscles to involuntarily twitch.  That is what has happened to Terri Schiavo except over a much longer period of time.  People immediately think she is still alive, but the "soul" has already left the body.  It is only biological processes occuring within the body that decieve people.  Terri was dead, but her body was alive.  Alive being equivalent to a vegetable, not a human.