Editing Vegetative state (section)

=== Notable cases ===
* [[Tony Bland]] – first patient in English legal history to be allowed to die
* [[Paul Brophy]] – first American to die after court authorization                                                                                                                     
* [[Sunny von Bülow]] – lived almost 28 years in a persistent vegetative state until her death
* [[Gustavo Cerati]] – Argentine singer-songwriter, composer and producer who died after four years in a chronic disorder of consciousness state
* [[Prichard Colón]] – Puerto Rican former professional boxer and gold medal winner who spent years in a vegetative state after a bout
* [[Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health|Nancy Cruzan]] – American woman involved in a landmark United States Supreme Court case
* [[Gary Dockery]] – American police officer who entered, emerged and later reentered a persistent vegetative state
* [[Eluana Englaro]] – Italian woman from Lecco who spent 17 years in a vegetative state until her death when a legal ruling authorized the removal of her feeding tube
* [[Elaine Esposito]] – American woman who was a previous record holder for having spent 37 years in a chronic disorder of consciousness state
* Lia Lee – Hmong girl who spent 26 years in a vegetative state after a seizure, and was the subject of [[The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down|a 1997 book]] by [[Anne Fadiman]]
* [[Martin Pistorius]] – South African man who is a rare example of a survivor as his state progressed to minimally conscious after 3 years, locked-in syndrome after another 4 years, and fully came out of a coma after another 5 years. He is now a web designer, developer, and author. In 2011, he wrote a book called ''Ghost Boy'', in which he describes his many years of being in a state of chronic disorder of consciousness.
* [[Annie Shapiro]] – Canadian woman who is another rare example of a survivor, as it is known that she could not think for the first 2 years of her 29 total years of being comatose. In 1992, she awakened fully recovered and lived her last 10 years peacefully. It is the longest a person has been in a coma and recovered.
* [[Haleigh Poutre]]
* [[Karen Ann Quinlan]]
* [[Terri Schiavo case|Terri Schiavo]]
* [[Aruna Shanbaug]] – Indian woman in persistent vegetative state for 42 years until her death. Owing to her case, the Supreme Court of India allowed passive [[euthanasia]] in the country.
* [[Ariel Sharon]]
* [[Chayito Valdez]]
* [[Vice Vukov]]
* [[Helga Wanglie]]
* [[Otto Warmbier]] - American college student whose parents requested his life support to be removed after being evacuated from the Pyongyang Friendship Hospital to Cincinnati in a vegetative state following an arrest during a tourist trip.