He experienced a deep coma but made a miraculous recovery and raced again fewer than two months later.

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The lowest possible score on the scale is 3, but even that is not definitive as it can indicate a deep coma as well as death.

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It was flown from a French military air base after Arafat, 75, died Thursday in a Paris hospital after falling into a deep coma that followed a brain hemorrhage.

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Chirac, who is one of the most enthusiastic champions of this breathing space, did not explain what France is going to do to save a constitution which is in a deep coma...

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It is meant to cause unconsciousness but its critics say that it fails to produce a deep coma-like unconsciousness necessary to prevent a prisoner from feeling the painful effects of the other two drugs in the protocol.

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