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...bush pilot who joined the Canadian Air Corps at 16 in World War I, afterward soldiered in China, stunted in Hollywood and in 1935 discovered Angel Fall, the world's highest (3,212 ft.) waterfall, while chasing down a gold mine over Venezuela; after six months in a coma following a cerebral hemorrhage suffered while he was recuperating after a plane crash; in Balboa...
Donald G. Ritchie '59, of Winthrop House and Hatboro, Penn., died yesterday after having been in a coma for two weeks...
...made notes: "7:26. Now I wonder how long it will take ... 7:31. Everyone wonders what it is like to die. I'm going to find out. 7:39. I can barely see." When police spotted the car at 2:45 a.m., Adair was in a deep coma. Fortunately, his record told doctors at Santa Monica Hospital how much barbiturate he had taken, and the empty pill bottle told what kind. It was too late for stomach pumping to do any good. He was promptly put on the standard treatment for such cases: an injection of picrotoxin...
About 90% of barbiturate poisoning victims recover with no more medication than this: their systems gradually remove the poison from the blood. But Adair's was a stubborn case. After 24 hours he remained in coma. Alarmed, hospital doctors got Adair transferred to U.C.L.A. Medical Center, where researchers had been experimenting on dogs with a fluid-exchange method called peritoneal dialysis, originally devised to tide patients over a kidney shutdown...
...months subject to fits and spells of moroseness. Neither a doctor's drugs nor a witch doctor's charms did any good. Little Mavis Sithebe seemed to lose the will to live, took almost no food or drink for two weeks, was in a coma most of the time. One day, according to her tearful mother, "she just closed her eyes and died." Without bothering to examine the body, the district surgeon issued a death certificate. The family sent for the hearse, only to learn that it had broken down...