He is my brother, and I love him fiercely, conspiracies and all.
I find it interesting that despite all the things her brother has said to her and her siblings and all the moments of uncomforted that he brings, she still loves and accepts that part of him.
added a smiley face emoji that read like a middle finger.
I like her interpretation of the smiley face reading like a middle finger. The context of the text comes at odds with the emoji, which is typically used to signify positivity. This disconnect between the two turns the emoji from positive into more patronizing territory.
When I was a volunteer fireman, I once helped to pull a dead man out of an overturned truck, and I remember the look of his open eyes as I handed him to the next person in line—I’d been expecting pathos, some ember of whatever thought had last crossed his mind, but they were just marbles, mere things.
The use of a personal experience (in this case the author's experience with pulling a dead man out of a truck) helps to contrast with the author's experience with seeing his brother in the hospital. This immediately communicates to us that his brother was not dead and though in a coma showed far more life than a dead person could.