Forum:Shadow Realm + Comas?

Characters have their minds/souls sent to the Shadow Realm, but does/can this cause their bodies to go into a coma-type of injury in the real physical world? During the Battle City Part 2 arc, Joey was not in the shadows and just in a coma, attached to medical links, including for breathing assistance, by the doctor. However, Mai had been sent to the Realm, and she did not have any medical help while merely lying unconscious on her bed in the same room. Although Yami Yugi defeated Yami Marik, therefore freeing Mai and Bakura from the shadows, how would they have been after a much longer time in there? Would Mai have eventually stopped breathing, since she would have eventually needed nutrients to continue living, like from the medical cords that coma patients have attached to them? Or would being stranded in eternal darkness somehow have protected her actual body from dying, even though she wasn't getting any water, food, etc, due to not being able to "wake up"?Mistystar31 (talk • contribs) 04:59, December 8, 2014 (UTC)