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Elaine Esposito (December 3, 1934 – November 25, 1978) [1] held the record for the longest period of time in a coma according to Guinness World Records, having lost consciousness in 1941 and eventually dying in that condition more than 37 years later.
Annie Shapiro (1913–2003) was a Canadian apron shop owner who was in a coma for 29 years because of a massive stroke and suddenly awakened in 1992. After the patients in the true story Awakenings, Shapiro spent the longest time in a coma-like state before waking up.
When she was 21, Quinlan became unconscious after she consumed Valium along with alcohol while on a crash diet and lapsed into a coma, followed by a persistent vegetative state. After doctors refused the request of her parents (Joseph and Julia Quinlan) to disconnect Karen's ventilator, her parents filed suit to get her disconnected.
In 1992 she awakened fully recovered and lived her last 10 years peacefully. It is the longest a person has been in a coma and woken up. Haleigh Poutre; Karen Ann Quinlan; Terri Schiavo; Aruna Shanbaug – Indian woman in persistent vegetative state for 42 years until her death.
In 1988, at just 12 years old, Martin Pistorius' health started to decline. He soon went into a coma-like state for 12 years, but now he's awake and telling an amazing story. Pistorius says while ...
Edwarda O'Bara (March 27, 1953 – November 21, 2012) was an American woman who spent 42 years in a diabetic coma starting in January 1970 after contracting pneumonia in December 1969. Early life and family
Jamie Foxx told a packed audience at a taping for his Netflix special that he had a “near-death experience” and was in a weeks-long coma during his mystery health crisis that had him ...
Harman told reporters that Cathy Dowdy, a mother and grandmother from Georgia, has been in a coma for six weeks since the October accident. A family friend of the golfer Brian Harman is in a coma ...