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Can speed up, and say, okay on, on the back end, i will stop drinking for the next 40 years of my life. >> i'm planning to start drinking and smoking when i turn 79. >> because it doesn't matter. >> and the other problem is if you are incredibly competitive. the first thing you will do, is say, okay, let's see how many drinks i can get in on a week. friends of mine and i once bought a breathalizer, instead of see whog could not get drunks, it was who can tap in to double digits. >> are all of your friends still alive? >> comatosed brain death. is that count? >> this seems like a fine idea, but...

Seven feet down there, not only is that an enormous amount of weight to bear, but there's no oxygen down that deep either. >> once you are under more to four to six minutes, brain death starts to occur. by ten minutes your chance of survival is very limited. my expectations is this is a body recovery at that point. just horrifying to think of that. >> but lifeguards, firefighters, police, and the volunteers continue to work feverishly. >> i tried to pull a couple of them out of the hole after about 20 minutes of digging, but they just wouldn't come out. they were in there and they were going t...

>> once you are under more to four to six minutes, brain death starts to occur. by ten minutes your chance of survival is very limited. my expectations is this is a body recovery at that point. just horrifying to think of that. >> but lifeguards, firefighters, police, and the volunteers continue to work feverishly. >> i tried to pull a couple of them out of the hole after about 20 minutes of digging, but they just wouldn't come out. they were in there and they were going to pull him out. >> after close to 30 minutes of frantic digging, finally news comes from the center of the giant pit. rescu...

That causes an expansion of the chest cavity and the lungs open up, and air comes in. if you prevent the chest from expanding and moving upward, you can't breathe. you have a big problem. you can go unconscious in a matter of seconds. death -- irreversible brain death can occur in a matter of five, six minutes. >> given that, did the prosecutor look at this? how could all of this not be raised to the grand jury or the fact that it's secret and we don't know what was raised is part of why i think it's broken. >> we don't know exactly -- >> we do know, let me just say this, we know the grand jur...

Munoz parents to see her now. she has been brain dead. >> a coma is a severe brain injury and the brain, though, is still getting blood flow and still getting oxygen and still generating electrical activity, which is what the brain does. but most importantly in a coma, even though that person is in a state of semi responsiveness, looks like a deep sleep, there is a potential for recovery. >> reporter: a long-term coma can become a vegetative state. in a rare number of cases, patients have come out of that condition. but if diagnosed correctly, brain death is permanent. >> there is no oxygen co...