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19 year coma...time travel?

  • 11-07-2003 8:04pm
    #1
    Hecate
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    I was just reading up on this story today; apparently this guy was in a car crash in 1984 and has been comatose up until a few weeks ago. As far as he's concerned he's still a 19 year old guy, even though he's actually 39. To further complicate things he's got a 19 year old daughter, and he still seems to think it's 1984.

    It all sounds a bit like the plot of that film Flight of the navigator, but it certainly provides a rare example of how somebody would react to say, travel into the future...


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  • #2
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    As I understand things the chap in question will have a very long road ahead of him as he's a quadapleigic after the crash, the idea of having a grown up daughter must be something that'll take a long time to get to grips with but hopefully just being alive and the joy thats bought everyone else will get him through it.

    This from www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/07/11/2003058929
    must gut Coke-
    Thrown into a stupor after an auto accident in 1984, he recently spoke his first words in 19 years: "Mom. Pepsi. Milk"

    Mike.


  • #3
    Hecate
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    his first words in 19 years: "Mom. Pepsi. Milk"

    Heh, seems commercialism become so ingrained that Pepsi is now equated with some basic elements of life...mother and milk? ;)


  • #4
    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    Pepsi... the choice of the old generation.

    DeV.


  • #5
    Sir Digby Chicken Caesar
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    maybe pepsi oughta get in touch with him about an ad campaign

    "pepsi cola brought me out of a 19 year coma, live life to the max! pepsi max!"


  • #6
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    He'll probably experience future shock - this was depicted in a book by Douglas Coupland called Girlfriend in a Coma - a girl awakens from a coma after X years - it's not so much the big changes the character noticed but little things like clothes and how cars had become rounder in shape. Would be interesting to hear this guy's reactions.


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  • #7
    Zukustious
    Closed Accounts Posts: 451 ✭✭Zukustious


    Man that's spooky. You try to wonder what it's like and you're thinking "That'd be so weird!". I doubt the world will really spook him up much though. I imagine it'd be a little shocking at first, but people can get used to anything


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