Pope in Persistent Vegetative State

I look at this and it causes me to wonder. If the Pope entered into the same Persistent Vegetative State that Mrs. Schiavo was in, how would this effect the world in general, and Catholicism specifically? Undoubtedly it would lead to a more thorough study of what is a Persistent Vegetative State. At the very least it would probably result in a change in terminology, as the linguistic connection between vegetative and vegetable would cause people to seek to describe the Pope's condition differently.