There's a difference between "going for another 24 hours, lucid and able to wrap up lose ends" and "going for another 24 hours, unconscious" and "going for anot

There's a difference between "going for another 24 hours, lucid and able to wrap up lose ends" and "going for another 24 hours, unconscious" and "going for another 24 hours in constant debilitating pain". Most people would choose the first of those three. For the other ones, I'm not sure. And if you replace "24 hours" with "a few months" I certainly wouldn't choose either of the latter two options. And neither would most people I've actually talked to about the issue in person. Would you?