Edwarda O'Bara (March 27, 1953 – November 21, 2012) was an American woman who spent 42 years in a diabetic coma starting in January 1970 after contracting pneumonia in December 1969.

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According to her family, at 3 a.m. on January 3, 1970, O'Bara "woke up shaking and in great pain because the oral form of insulin she had been taking wasn't reaching her blood stream".

Before losing consciousness, Edwarda asked her mother, Kaye O'Bara, to never leave her side.

O'Bara died at her home in Miami Gardens, Florida on November 21, 2012, at the age of 59.