irreversible coma
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According to local media, he fell into an irreversible coma on Friday at a hospital in the central Italian city of L'Aquila, after requesting that he be given no aggressive medical treatment.
From BBC • Sep. 25, 2023
In the final days of the campaign, his opponent’s father, Harry Flood Byrd, a longtime senator from Virginia, fell into an irreversible coma.
From Washington Post • Nov. 4, 2022
He was the medical counsel and adviser to the family of Karen Ann Quinlan, who never regained consciousness after she fell into an irreversible coma in 1975. for several years.
From Salon • Oct. 29, 2022
The heiress to a $75 million fortune went into a coma in December 1979, from which she recovered, and a second, irreversible coma in December 1980.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 7, 2019
A hail-Mary brain surgery was attempted at the very end, but the operation’s only effect was to put her into an irreversible coma.
From Slate • Dec. 24, 2012
