After his death, he was cremated and his ashes were buried alongside the grave of his wife, Betty (who died on April 15, 2001), at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California. His second wife, Elizabeth Taylor, died six months and one day after Fisher, on March 23, 2011.
Medications Used for Intravenous (IV) Sedation. Today, the most popular class of medications for IV sedation in the dental office are a class of drugs known as the benzodiazepines, with midazolam (Versed) probably one the most often used.
While a medically induced coma puts a patient in a very deep unconscious state, sedation puts a patient in a semi-conscious state. Sedation is often given to allow a patient to be comfortable during a surgical or medical procedure and is administered through an intravenous catheter (IV), with minimal side effects.