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That would unquestionably activate their belief that this person is still alive and they would consider such an action to be murder. You could play their two beliefs "this person is alive -> don't murder them" and "at least as a soul instead of a vegetative patient this person would have some autonomy" off against each other but they would most likely back out of the conversation before any serious mind-changing happens.