Dead or almost dead, it would have been the right thing and a matter of piety for the guys on the podium to abstain from spraying champagne. They did not have champagne in Monza 2000 and Melbourne 2001 when the ppl got killed and there is no reason why officials should be paid some sort of special respect that drivers don't get. Even if Michael Schumacher was not really fond of Senna and vice versa, it takes just the tiniest spark of decency to cancel any kind of parade if someone - rergardless who -got killed or is halfway dead.
Are people plugged to life machine still alive? This is really not easy to say. Biological they are since there are still vital signs to be observed. In an ethic respect I would not know the answer. It is easy to say thatsome ppl are better off dead, others, however, who are in the same situation, will not lose the will to live. Wrong example, maybe, but who thought that Zanardi would master his fate so extremely well? I bet some of us have thought, 'I'd better be dead than without legs'.
REHAB IS FOR QUITTERS