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...listening." The family resisted putting the call on the speaker phone. "That was Catie's time with Jo," Gina says. "We didn't want to intrude on their privacy." The last few times Rowling called, Catie was too sick to come to the phone. She drifted into a coma and died...
AILING. ROBERT ATKINS, 72, founder of the high-protein, low-carbohydrate diet; in a coma, with severe head injuries, after slipping on ice and hitting his head on a sidewalk; in New York City. Doctors who performed surgery to relieve the pressure of the trauma said his condition was grave...
...toxic dose of barbiturates, and the couple was taken to a bare apartment in Zurich. They likely lay down upon two single beds, ate some Swiss chocolate to help them swallow a bitter anti-vomiting medication, and then drank the barbiturate cocktail. Within minutes, they drifted into a coma, then died. The couple had already arranged for a double coffin. Since the couple's death, Jennifer Stokes' mother and sister have demanded that Dignitas be shut down. British M.P.s have called for an investigation. "It's a terrible signal, for patients and doctors, and for Switzerland," says Oswald Oelz, chief...
...scene is East Berlin in 1989. a diehard communist teacher is on her way to celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the East German state when she catches sight of her son in an antigovernment demonstration. She collapses from a heart attack and falls into a coma. When she regains consciousness eight months later, the communist world has been swept away - but her doctor warns her son that any stress could trigger another heart attack. So he hatches an elaborate plot to convince her that her beloved German Democratic Republic still exists. In Germany, the fall of the Berlin Wall...
...unusually complicated characters, Talk to Her shamelessly and outrageously asks its audience to sympathize with a rapist. The film manages, paradoxically, to be both sloppily edited and deadeningly self-conscious. As it progresses, the audience is slowly but surely ushered into a stupor very closely resembling that of the coma victim at the story’s inane center. Winner of this year’s Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Talk to Her screens...