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* ''Sisterhood'' by [[Fern Michaels]]: The book ''Collateral Damage'' reveals the fate of Karl Woodley. He is still stuck to a wheelchair. He has lost his ability to talk and can only make noises. His wife Paula Woodley makes him eat baby food, while she eats a ''great'' Southern meal right in front of him. She is more than happy to taunt him, and he cannot do ''anything'' about it. When he is not in the kitchen eating his meal, he is kept in a small room as a prisoner, with nothing but a TV that has nothing but the weather channel on it. He is perfectly aware of everything going on around him. What had he done to deserve this, you might ask? He was a [[Complete Monster]] abusive wife-beater who burned his wife, broke every bone in her body, kicked her while she was down, and probably other heinous deeds were done! His wife wants her own form of [[Revenge]] and justice against him!
* In ''{{color|blue|House}} [[House of Leaves|Of Leaves]]'', one of the characters dreams about limbo. It's an immense room with a well in the center. You can wait in the room indefinitely, and there are people who have been there for eons. If you jump into the well, your life is judged. If you're a good person, you disappear in a flash of blue light and are taken to an eternal paradise. If you're a bad person, you sink into the darkness for all eternity.
* Partly subverted in John Ringo’s [[Posleen War Series]]: [[AI
** It might be that in fact that non-mad
* Same for China Mieville's slake-moths from ''[[Perdido Street Station]]'', they can suck the information, conscious as well as unconscious, from a person's brain, in the form of dreams, leaving the poor victim completely unable to care for himself or herself, ''not even to swallow or defecate''. If this happens far away from other people, [[Mercy Kill|you may be lucky enough to die in a day or two from thirst]]. If found and "saved", [[And I Must Scream|you are condemned to years and years practically as a living corpse]].
* In the book ''Ice Hunt'', researchers find a giant iceberg where somebody had been doing suspended animation experiments decades ago. The research says that he had to put the subjects to sleep before suspending them. One explorer finds out why when he uses some of the suspended animation serum when he gets trapped in a pod as the whole place collapses - {{spoiler|while suspended, the subject cannot sense anything, but is completely conscious -- the guy realizes this as his pod lands at the bottom of the Arctic Ocean.}}
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