Reborn | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

"For three years, Riaan Bolton has lain motionless, his eyes open but unseeing. After a devastating car crash doctors said he would never again see or speak or hear. Now his mother, Johanna, dissolves a pill in a little water on a teaspoon and forces it gently into his mouth. Within half an hour, as if a switch has been flicked in his brain, Riaan looks around his home in the South African town of Kimberley and says, 'Hello.' Shortly after his accident, Johanna had turned down the option of letting him die." To read more about this story visit: Reborn | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited