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Hearing is an early sense to develop and often the last to be lost some people in a coma can still hear.

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Come Friday (or late Thursday night), millions of people still in or recovering from the Thanksgiving food coma will be battling in stores to save a few dollars.

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Thanks to this technology, doctors, hospitals, and insurers will be able to find out exactly what sort of care a patient in a coma, for instance, wants.

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The theatre was concerned that the play would be too controversial in the wake of Ariel Sharon's collapse into a coma and Hamas's election victory in the Palestinian territories.

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Ms. Dimond, 58 and living in New York, recalls the Sunday she watched her mother in a coma and was able to fulfill her wishes never to be kept on external life support.

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Greek doctors had said Mr Hughes, who was in a coma, was 48 hours from death and warned he would be left paralysed.

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Every day I was in a coma, my parents prayed for me and for it not to be my time, and to come back to them.

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As Sharon has been in a coma for seven years, the fMRI evidence is positive, but it would be unusual for him to start talking, for example, given how long he has stayed in this state, Black said.

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The 96th victim, who was left in a coma, died three years later after a ruling that his tube-feeding could be ended.

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