Ten years later, she remains dependent on the respirator.

She was brought to a hospital and put on a respirator to help her breathe.

On December 21, an Italian doctor, Mario Riccio, disconnected a respirator that was keeping Piergiorgio Welby alive.

After Riccio gave him a sedative and switched off the respirator, Welby said thank you three times to his wife, his friends, and his doctor.

Now this is somebody who is brain dead, legally dead, definitely checked out, but is being kept alive on a respirator, so that their organs will be oxygenated for transplantation.

Even when he could scarcely breathe with the help of an automatic respirator, Argentines wanted him to assume his role in their dark ritual Show us a good time, bring our hearts some fun.

Faisal A young physician who had just completed his post graduate studies, sustained serious injuries in a road crash and, after seven months on a respirator, had to relearn how to speak, walk and eat. Sadly, he will never practise medicine again.