Horizon
Season 33 Episode 14 - Living Death
7.4 ?
1964
Documentary
Looks at new treatments for patients in a persistent vegetative state. Focuses on the case of Geoffrey Wildsmith who was misdiagnosed as being PVS. He had awoken from his coma but was totally paralysed and unable to communicate. After two years he was transferred and it was found he could communicate by using a buzzer connected to a highly sensitive pressure-switch.
Episodes in Season 33
1
The Butchers of Boxgrove
60 min
2
Fermat's Last Theorem
60 min
3
A Miracle for Cancer ?
60 min
4
Nature's Numbers
60 min
5
The Gene Race
60 min
6
Masters of the Ionosphere
60 min
7
Assault on the Male (revisited)
60 min
8
Death by Design
60 min
9
The Planet Hunters
60 min
10
Inside Chernobyl's Sarcophagus (Update)
60 min
11
Fallout from Chernobyl
60 min
12
TV is Dead, Long Live TV
60 min
13
Aliens from Mars
60 min
14
Living Death
60 min
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15
The Time Lords
60 min
16
Noah's Flood
60 min
