Friday is a good day to be: Reborn

Do you know someone or have you ever met someone who was living only because they were hooked up to machines? What would you think if a little pill that puts most people directly to sleep, would wake up those that are brain-dead? Here's an except from this article:

We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after taking ... a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who made the breakthrough. Steve Boggan witnesses these 'strange and wonderful' rebirths