Terri Schiavo

Terri Schiavo

female, deceased (2005)
John Ellis Bush, Florida Legislature, Italian-American, conscious, Governor of Florida, consciousness…severebraindamage
Theresa Marie "Terri" Schiavo (December 3, 1963 - March 31, 2005), from St. Petersburg, Florida, United States was a woman who suffered brain...
Karen Ann Quinlan

Karen Ann Quinlan

female, deceased (1985)
Catholic, living will, Civil Rights, from the Scranton--Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area, moral theology, New Jersey Supreme Court…severebraindamage
Karen Ann Quinlan (March 29 1954 - June 11 1985) was an important figure in the history of the right to die debate in United States. When she was...
Nancy Cruzan

Nancy Cruzan

female, deceased (1990)
supreme court of the united states, Nancy Beth Cruzan, Death by euthanasia, feeding tube, severebraindamage, U.S. Supreme Court
Nancy Beth Cruzan (July 20, 1957-December 26, 1990) was a figure in the right-to-die movement. After an auto accident left her in a persistent...
Terry Wallis

Terry Wallis

male, 45 years old
Cornell University, from Arkansas, coma, American, severebraindamage, minimally conscious state
Terry Wallis (born 7 April, 1964) is an American man living in Arkansas who on June 11, 2003 regained awareness after spending almost 20 years in a...
Tony Bland

Tony Bland

male, deceased (1993)
persistent vegetative state, liverpool football club, English, severebraindamage, Hillsborough disaster, Anthony David ("Tony") Bland
Anthony David ("Tony") Bland (21 September1970 - 3 March 1993) was a supporter of Liverpool football club injured in the Hillsborough disaster. He...
Phineas Gage

Phineas Gage

male, deceased (1860)
Personality psychology, Neurotrauma, frontal lobe, personal, neuroscience, social…traumatic brain injury, severebraindamage, brain injuries
Phineas P. Gage (1823 - May 21, 1860) was a railroad construction foreman who suffered a traumatic brain injury when a tamping iron accidentally...
Spiro Nikolouzos

Spiro Nikolouzos

male, 73 years old
May 30, 2005, Sun Hudson, brain shunt, life support, Avalon Place, gastric feeding tube…severebraindamage
Spiro Nikolouzos (1936-May 30, 2005) was a Texan man incapacitated from bleeding related to a brain shunt. He was hospitalized on February 10 2005...
Hm

Hm

male, 83 years old
from Connecticut, memory, brain injury, patient, anonymous, Cognitive Neuropsychology…severebraindamage
HM (also known as "H.M." and "Henry M.," born 1926 in Connecticut) is an anonymous memory impaired patient who has been widely studied since the...
Paul Brophy

Paul Brophy

male, deceased (1986)
Nutrition, persistent vegetative state, American, massachusetts supreme judicial court, aneurysm, right to die…severebraindamage
Paul Brophy (died October 23, 1986) was a fireman in Massachusetts who entered a persistent vegetative state with no believed chance of recovery....

Gary Dockery

male, deceased (1997)
persistent vegetative state, severebraindamage, Gary French Dockery, coma-like state
Gary French Dockery, was a police officer in Walden, Tennessee who made world headlines after emerging from a 7 ½ year coma-like state and started t...