too much repetition

"I've lived this often enough now," he said. "I've lived this over and over again. I come out of suspension; I walk down the ramp; I get my luggage; sometimes I have a drink at the bar and sometimes I come directly to my room. Usually I turn on the TV and then --" He came over and held his hand toward her. "See where the bee stung me?"
She saw no mark on his hand (372)

"I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" is a story about memories. Victor Kemmings has been suspended in a ship reliving his past and reconstructed memories. His guilt of killing the bird taints and eventually ruins him (367). His own guilt eats away at his conscience leaving him psychotic. He has lived the same memory for ten years that he is unable to recognize what is real from what is artificial. His only notion of reality is based on his basic routine in which he has varied his actions, but he has come to realization that he is living a simulation created by the ship. Kemmings is unable to grasp reality when his routine changes. When he actually lands on the new world, Martine comes back into his life, his hand does not go through the wall, and there is no mark on his hand from a bee sting. He disregards this tangible evidence and continues on as if it were recirculated memory. Ten years has taken its toll as Victor is now delusional yet eerily content with his ex-wife living in what he believes is a fabrication. With reality so close, the ending of the story is rather depressing.

Is Victor's state of psychosis better than being in a vegetative state?