Conscious man 'in coma' for 23 years

That's truly awful. It reminds me of "Johnny Got His Gun" Metallica also based their song "One" on it. "Darkness imprisoning me All that I see Absolute horror I cannot live I cannot die Trapped in myself Body my holding cell" Yeah, a faith worse than death...

SO does he get to pay for his hospital bill if he was conscience all this time?

That's Hell on Earth, right there. exactly....

Doubting a ‘Locked-In’ Man’s Words Update | 8:45 p.m. Rom Houben, a Belgian man who spent 23 years lying motionless in bed, suffering from complete paralysis that was misdiagnosed as the result of a coma, was discovered to have been fully conscious three years ago by a doctor using new brain-scan technology.Now, just four days after his remarkable story was first reported in the media, and he was shown giving a round of interviews to television journalists — typing out remarks on a special keyboard his family says he can operate with the help of a caregiver — Mr. Houben has been intr... [More]

Where was god in all of this? Why did he have to suffer so horribly? Incapacited, vulnerable, lost... I wish to god I didn't believe in god. HORRIBLE.

Apparently this is complete BS from what I've read. The video of the woman doing this is looking at his hand and moving his fingers for him. There is no independent movement. The poor man is a pawn and that woman should be arrested for fraud.

Yes, I was suspicious as well. I would hope that they would have someone else other than his regular caretakers verify that he can spell things out on his own.

Yes, I was suspicious as well. I would hope that they would have someone else other than his regular caretakers verify that he can spell things out on his own. Aw what? A con? Jeez, what next!

That's truly awful. It reminds me of "Johnny Got His Gun" Metallica also based their song "One" on it. "Darkness imprisoning me All that I see Absolute horror I cannot live I cannot die Trapped in myself Body my holding cell" Yeah, a faith worse than death... That was what I was thinking of. "Johnny Got His Gun" should be required reading in med school. I know people who are locked in their bodies by MS. It is a living hell.

I cannot even begin to imagine how much that would suck. I think I would try to suffocate myself or something after awhile. At the very least, I'd be totally insane once I came out of the coma and they'd have to put me down like a wild animal.