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Richard Rudd Doctors: Blink, And You'll Live

Doctors To Paralyzed Man: Blink, And You'll Live
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A man who was left paralysed and seemingly unable to communicate following a traffic accident was saved from having his life support machine turned off when he managed to blink three times to tell doctors that he did not want to die.

Richard Rudd's family had been agonising about turning off life support, his father said, after his son had said he would not want to live in a paralysed state.

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