Eden (1996)

A student at a New England boys' school is infatuated with an instructor's wife who has Multiple Sclerosis. The woman struggles to show her strict husband how love, rather than demands, helps the student to blossom, but eventually she falls into a coma. While she is able to have some "looking down" awareness of what is happening, her coma is what brings her husband to an understanding of the needs of others.