Study: 72% of totally paralyzed people are happy

“Many rated their quality of life as higher than I would have done,” says Steven Laureys at the Coma Science Group at the University of Liège in Belgium, head of the survey team.

“That may seem surprising to us looking from the outside, but some patients show enormous capacity to adapt to their new condition,” says Laureys. “They don’t so much open a new chapter in their lives, as an entire new book,” he says.