We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough. Steve Boggan witnesses these 'strange and wonderful' rebirths
Reborn [Pill reverses "vegetative state"]
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Is PVS (persistent vegetative state) a fate worse than death? Some think so. Resuscitation often salvages only a living shell of the former person. So should we be more realistic - perhaps by not using all our technology to its full extent, just because we can?
Persistent vegetative state: edge of darkness
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Lively thread over there :-) The story itself is wonderful news. For some reason, that attracts all the Joe Bfstplks and a few sex-specific denizens of the kennel. I do believe they could look at a dazzling dew drop on a rose petal in the sweet light of dawn, and see famine, plague, war, Israeli atrocities and clogging of the arteries.