Vegetate?

- You know what I might do? I might stay right here in this bed and vegetate. I could vegetate very comfortably right here and let other people make the decisions.
* It's lousy.
- No, it must be very pleasant to be free from all this doubt and pressure. I think I'd like to live like a vegetable and make no important decisions.
* What kind of vegetable?
- A cucumber or a carrot.
* What kind of cucumber? A good one or a bad one?
- Oh, a good one, of course.
* They'd cut you off in your prime and slice you up for a salad.
- A poor one, then.
* They'd let you rot and use you for fertilizer to help the good ones grow.
- I guess I don't want to live like a vegetable, then.