Someone is too close to finding out the truth. Or perhaps he or she knows too much for their own good. For whatever reason, this person has been seriously injured or ill, and is now unconscious in a hospital bed. An assailant slips behind the hospital staff and quietly sneaks into the hospital room with intent on killing the sleeping patient. Sometimes they succeed. Sometimes they don't. Scarily enough, there are cases where this is Truth in Television. Examples of Sickbed Slaying include: