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It was summertime, July 1975, I was eight years old at the time...
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After a night of celebrating while watching the Montréal Olympic games, my friend and I left to go home...
I observed the body surrounded by a surgical team, then the hospital from above, then the hospital surrounded by wintering cornfields...
After the doctors could not revive me, I found myself above them in the corner of the room...
I was going in and out of consciousness during the examination and when I was in the second operating-theatre I suddenly found myself surrounded by very bright light, where there was really no way to tell up or down...
Following a sudden aortic dissection, I was urgently operated in a specialized center...
During a car trip with my wife I had to stop because of a severe illness with sudden sweating, precordial, and neck pain...
I was in a club one night watching a band with all my friends - a normal occurrence...
I had not long been given two cats...
On January 27th I had an appointment with my cardiologist at 2:00 pm...
I was in a near head on (45 degree angle) car collision, each of us traveling about 60 mph...
I remember telling the nurse that I felt very badly...
