Answer:
The answer is A. Mikal is in a vegetative state.
Explanation:
A person will go into vegetative state if he/she experiences severe medical illness or traumatic brain injury. Due to the impaired functioning of the cerebral hemispheres, the person will go into a state of unresponsiveness, unconsciousness, and lack of awareness.
When in this state, the awareness and responsiveness are particularly absent.
Typically, a vegetative state will occur because the function of the brain stem and diencephalon resumes after coma, but cortical function does not, but the brain stem and the diencephalon will not able to preserve autonomic and motor reflexes and sleep-wake cycles.
In the scenario given above, Mikal was in a state in which his cognitive functions have ceased but he was still breathing and sometimes showed some signs of consciousness like making sounds and opening of eyes, so therefore, he is in a Vegetative State.