The night after the assault, Ritcheson's lungs failed, and he was placed on a ventilator.

"If my lungs fail in this atmosphere, it should be quick."

The movie starts when the lung donated failed to arrive correctly.

By the time he arrived at New York Hospital, his lungs were failing.

Despite giving up smoking late in life, his lungs failed him and he died of cancer in 1959, aged 70.

Smoke in the sick-room of someone whose lungs are failing?

But apparently by the time she reached the Albuquerque hospital, in midafternoon, her lungs had failed beyond rescue.

Angels didn't need oxygen, per se, so it wasn't possible that his lungs were failing him.

The rating reeled away sharply, sucking for air as his lungs failed.

After his lungs and kidneys failed, he was on a life-support system for several weeks.