Korea - Volunteer work

For 2 days we were involved with the mercy work for the poor, the aged, forgotten by their families, the abandoned babies, orphans, multiple handicapped people. I'm excited to see Jesus in them! I worked in the Ignok Hospital in the hospice ward. The patients are called family members. Most of them in the hospice ward are in vegetative states. They can't move in their beds, needing the volunteers/nurses to turn them once every 2 hours, they are fed by tube 5 times a day, they wear adult diapers. While I wondered if i was making any difference, simply massaging them, talking/singing to them, folding some of the 7000 diapers they use each day, hand mopping the floor, reading the bible, praying with them, even though i know there'd not be any kind of interaction or response.

While i could look out the window when i need a change of view, their only view from their bed is the ceiling and the walls. In their vegetative state, do they feel imprisoned in a human shell? Are they brain dead? Are they thinking anything at all? As i prayed with them, I felt a deep sense of peace and serenity, God is with them even at this stage. Even though their family members have abandoned them, some on the streets, they are now in a loving environment, surrounded by loving volunteers who come over to pat them, joke with them, people who find it a privilege working there! These people have my deepest respect.