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Living Death

Horizon

Run Time: 60 mins

Air Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996

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BBC Two

Season 33 - Episode 14

Living Death

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Looks at new treatments for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Focuses on the case of Geoffrey Wildsmith who was misdiagnosed as being PVS. He had awoken from his coma but was totally paralysed and unable to communicate. After two years he was transferred and it was found he could communicate by using a buzzer connected to a highly sensitive pressure-switch.

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