Sentence examples for in a coma on from inspiring English sources

Healthy years, of course; no one wants to live 500 years in a coma on a respirator.

For four days, he lingers in a coma; on the fifth, he dies.

A child is found in a coma on a school bus, not frozen to death.

"My mother was in a coma on my 21st birthday," she says, "and ever since, birthdays have been kind of important to me".

Gate of the Sun, by Elias Khoury, translated by Elias Khoury (Vintage, £7.99) An elderly Palestinian freedom fighter lies in a coma on the outskirts of Beirut.

When Tony Soprano was in a coma on "The Sopranos," he… What makes me the same person throughout my life, and a different person from you?

Unfortunately, he is also guiltily aware that he has been misleading the poor child, for the flowers he buys are indeed for his wife, who is lying in the hospital in a coma brought on by the shock of his return, a coma from which she is not expected to emerge.

In another example a man in a diabetic coma on a bus was Tasered: slumped over his rucksack he was deemed a potential terrorist (despite the fact that a Taser could detonate any explosives).

But they warned that only one in ten patients who spent so many months in a coma went on to recover all or most of their mental and physical capacities.

Mr. Hajjarian remained in a coma and on a life support system today at Sina Hospital in Tehran, with what one of the doctors involved described as "irreversible brain damage" resulting from oxygen starvation in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

Shortly afterwards, Wilkinson developed pneumonia; on 3 February she was found in her London flat in a coma, and on 6 February 1947 she died in St Mary's Hospital, Paddington.