Man Trapped in Coma 23 Years - Page 3

On November 24 2009 07:14 fabiano wrote:
wait, wasnt there an episode of House exactly about something like this?

On November 24 2009 07:18 keepITup wrote:
What a vague article.

So people in comas with functioning brains can hear everything around them? Was he able to do this the entire time? Is he out of a coma and paralyzed, or in a coma and somehow can move his right hand?

On November 24 2009 07:20 Try wrote:


lol you can't be in a coma and type anything meaningful... He was never in a "coma" so to speak, doctors thought he was in vegetative state, but he was actually fully paralyzed.

On November 24 2009 07:08 travis wrote:
I am confused by what you are saying.

Are you saying that it wouldn't be extremely confusing and disorienting?

On November 24 2009 07:13 travis wrote:


yes it was clearly speculation. isn't all of this? have any of us been in his situation before?

I reached it based on a period of time when i stayed in bed (mostly with my eyes closed) for about 48 hours. It didn't take long before i was in a super hazy state, disoriented, and didn't know when it was or wtf was going on, and wasn't sure about the order of events that had occured to me in the last 48 hours.

I have to imagine that without sight, and communication with others, yes things would become very hazy and dreamlike.


And I think solitary confinement for 23 years would likely be worse than this.

The more solidly the ego is formed, the easier it is to freak out and feel bad.
If you're just floating along in your own mind most of the time, I doubt it is as bad as having to be fully awake and sitting there for an equal amount of time.


and for when someone asks, the reason i stayed in bed that long was that i was super depressed

On November 24 2009 05:25 Azrael1111 wrote:
After 23 years of just sitting around who wouldn't want to be dead?

On November 24 2009 05:55 LF9 wrote:
I can't even fathom this. That's longer than I've even been alive, and he had absolutely no choice; he probably wished to be killed after a year or so of it. After what he's been through, someone really needs to get together a fundraiser to hire hookers to give him day and night pleasure for the rest of his life. It's only fair.

On November 24 2009 06:15 LordWeird wrote:
It's probably terrible to want to cry and scream and kill yourself but not be able to do it for twenty three years. It was probably the most torturous twenty three years anybody has ever had to go through. I imagine a lot of the time he tried to sleep.

God that sucks.

On November 24 2009 07:50 lvatural wrote:


There may be a causation issue here...your hazy state might have been due to your "super depression" rather than lying around for 48 hours. Sure he may become disoriented for lapses of time (like you said who knows?) from being in a pretty horrifying state, but I would find it reasonable to doubt that such existed for the entire 23 year duration.

Again how you connect no sight + inability to communicate --> hazy state, I don't understand. The mere fact that he could hear "every word" from the doctors and that he consciously screamed seem to imply the exact opposite.

He would feel better in solitary confinement rather than his state due to having a "less solid ego"? I'm no psychologist but that doesn't really seem compelling to me. You presume his ego is less solid (whatever the hell that means) and because of this somehow he is no longer concerned about his inability to communicate/see/read/write/taste/etc...

From this argument you'd take his predicament over solitary confinement? Really?

Edit: BTW I just noticed your sig. Surprised that you aren't a little more sympathetic to the man.

On November 24 2009 07:57 Jayve wrote:




I don't understand this mentality.

I don't see how anything is worse than death and I've never understood the "I'd rather be dead" sentenses.

I don't mean to be "racist" or "profile" or whatever you want to call it. But I seem to hear it out of Americans a lot. Can someone explain this mentality to me? I just can't see anything worse than death.

Is it because you believe in an afterlife you'd rather be dead?

On November 24 2009 08:06 travis wrote:



I have sympathy for beings not articles.

But, I also do not think that many people could willingly lie in bed for much longer than that without becoming depressed. So that kind of makes that point moot.

On November 24 2009 07:57 Jayve wrote:
I don't understand this mentality.

I don't see how anything is worse than death and I've never understood the "I'd rather be dead" sentenses.

I don't mean to be "racist" or "profile" or whatever you want to call it. But I seem to hear it out of Americans a lot. Can someone explain this mentality to me? I just can't see anything worse than death.

Is it because you believe in an afterlife you'd rather be dead?

On November 24 2009 08:15 keepITup wrote:
The only thing this guy can do is think, after 23 years he's probably more curious about death than anything else.

On November 24 2009 08:25 3clipse wrote:
Death is merely the cessation of existence. If your existence is chiefly negative, wouldn't death be a welcome reprieve? Dying is certainly a pretty lame experience, I'd imagine, but being dead is the ultimate neutrality; simply nothing. We've already not existed for an infinite amount of time before our lives began. Was it so bad?

On November 24 2009 07:57 Jayve wrote:




I don't understand this mentality.

I don't see how anything is worse than death and I've never understood the "I'd rather be dead" sentenses.

I don't mean to be "racist" or "profile" or whatever you want to call it. But I seem to hear it out of Americans a lot. Can someone explain this mentality to me? I just can't see anything worse than death.

Is it because you believe in an afterlife you'd rather be dead?