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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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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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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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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