On July 19, 2013, John spent the evening with friends, returning home around midnight. He made himself a snack, said goodnight to his parents, and turned in. Everything seemed normal. But at 6:30 a.m.

The New York Times Magazine explores how a growing body of research is upending what doctors thought they knew about people in so-called vegetative states. The piece by Katie Engelhart reports that ...

The Supreme Court of India, in a landmark judgment allowed 32-year-old Harish Rana, who had been living in a vegetative state for last 13 years, the right to die. This means, that the apex court ...