The Indian nurse, Aruna Shanbaug, who spent 42 years in a persistent vegetative state after being raped and strangled has died.
Aruna Shanbaug was left with severe brain damage and paralysed after the 1973 attack by a ward attendant in the Mumbai hospital where she worked.
She was fed through the nose to keep her alive but developed pneumonia six days ago, the hospital told the BBC.

The nurse was 25 years old when she was sodomised by a KEM hospital cleaner that strangled her with metal chains and left her to die on 27 November 1973.
She survived, but spent the rest of her life in hospital, force fed twice a day.
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She really suffered o. Chaii............. They probably mercy-killed her to end her suffering.