Edwarda O’Bara’s story is one of those rare real-life cases that feels almost impossible to believe. A teenage girl from Miami, once healthy and full of ordinary school-life dreams, suddenly fell into ...
January 1970 saw 16-year-old Edwarda O’Bara of Miami, Florida, falling into a diabetic coma just before midnight. Doctors thought that there was no hope of her making it through the night. However, ...
When Edwarda O’Bara died on 21 November 2012, she had survived 15,663 days (about 42 years) in a coma. Born in 1953, in Miami, Florida, O’Bara suffered a childhood history of diabetes, which she ...