His Audi smashed head-on into a heavy truck and he died without regaining consciousness.

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Two days later, surrounded by family, she died at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine without regaining consciousness.

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Carried out without self-consciousness, it could have taken place at any time in the last thousand years.

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"At 28, 000 feet, you don't have an awful lot of useful consciousness without the support of oxygen or being in a pressurized aircraft, " said O'Brien, a former CNN correspondent.

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Maybe then the cold man of steel, so often without emotion through times of thrills and spills, would let us into his consciousness one more time.

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That will help to bring the study of consciousness into a mainstream in which the non-tenured can study it without receiving funny looks from their colleagues.

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