Annie Shapiro Canadian woman who is also another rare example of a survivor as it is known she couldnt think for her first 2 years of her 29 years total of being comatose. In 1992 she awakened fully recovered and lived her last 10 years peacefully. She is the longest a person has been in a coma and woken up apart from the catatonic stupor patients in Awakenings. Haleigh Poutre
Karen Ann Quinlan
Terri Schiavo
Rita Greene
Aruna Shanbaug – Indian woman in persistent vegetative state for 42 years until her death. Owing to her case, the Supreme Court of India allowed passive euthanasia in the country. Ariel Sharon
Chayito Valdez
Vice Vukov
Helga Wanglie
Otto Warmbier

See also
Anencephaly
Brain death
Botulism
Catatonia
Karolina Olsson
Locked-in syndrome
Process Oriented Coma Work, for an approach to working with residual consciousness in patients in comatose and persistent vegetative states

References

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Society and culture
Support groups
The Juvenile Scleroderma Network is an organization dedicated to providing emotional support and educational information to parents and their children living with juvenile scleroderma, supporting pediatric research to identify the cause of and the cure for juvenile scleroderma, and enhancing public awareness.In the US, the Scleroderma Foundation is dedicated to raise awareness of the disease and assist those who are affected.The Scleroderma Research Foundation sponsors research into the condition. Comedian and television presenter Bob Saget, a board member of the SRF, directed the 1996 ABC TV movie For Hope, starring Dana Delany, which depicts a young woman fatally affected by scleroderma; the film was based on the experiences of Sagets sister Gay.Scleroderma and Raynauds UK is a British charity formed by the merger of two smaller organisations in 2016 to provide support for people with scleroderma and fund research into the condition. Prognosis
A 2018 study placed 10-year survival rates at 88%, without differentiation based on subtype. Diffuse systemic sclerosis, internal organ complications, and older age at diagnosis are associated with worse prognoses. Research
Given the difficulty in treating scleroderma, treatments with a smaller evidence base are often tried to control the disease.