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Garcia too was a suicidal adventurer. He did coke the way some people drink the stuff, and romanced heroin to the end. He was in and out of hospitals and rehab centers; in 1986 he fell into a coma. Last year he collapsed at his home and promised to reform. But that was not in his nature. "You're out there on the edge," Kesey says, "where it's beyond dangerous to your life--it's dangerous to your soul. And Garcia was on that edge for 30 years. It's like when the King asked Mozart why he drank...
...novels at a Barcelona party in December 1991, when she got word that her daughter was in a hospital in Madrid. She flew to her side. "I love you too, Mama," the 27-year-old Paula murmured just before she was seized by convulsions and fell into a coma. She never woke up, and a year later she died in Allende's arms. "I had a choice," the author recalls. "Was I going to commit suicide? Sue the hospital? Or was I going to write a book that would heal...
...marriage fell apart, just as her literary career took off. In 1988, on a book tour in California, she fell in love "at first sight" with, and married, an American lawyer, William Gordon. It was to their house that she brought Paula, in the final months of her coma, so she could die at home...
...those wounded was Zuhra Poturak, 25, an economics technician whose husband was killed during the first summer of the war. In 1993 she was hit by a machine-gun round and went into a coma for two months. When she awoke, she could not speak and had lost control of the right side of her body. During the weeks of painful recuperation, Poturak sustained herself with a single vision: she wanted to take her young son for a walk in the neighborhood and, without having to be afraid of mortars or snipers, board a tram. When Wednesday's shell sent...
...them, Andrew Puopolo '77, suffered extensive brain damage from a lack of oxygen after he was stabbed. After a 31-day coma, the star defensive back died of cardiac arrest...