Steven Hawking's Brother

[Qwertyportne]

Several years ago, my wife broke her wrist and needed surgery to repair the break. There's always a risk of death when you are anesthetized so we talked about that a few times and I reminded her of the NDE/OOB (near death and out-of-body) experiments conducted several years ago in an operating room where cardiac surgeries were performed. A researcher put a scrolling message on top of a high cabinet that read THE POPSICLES ARE IN BLOOM. The message was not visible to the patients nor anyone in the operating room. Several patients who underwent surgery that day described floating up to the ceiling but none of them said anything about the scrolling message. Being a poet of sorts, I couldn't resist archiving the incident poetically...

Bright lights
Surgical steel
Separation!
Body below
Mind above
Popsicles Bloom?
Dusk to dark
Don't leave the room!
Dawn to daylight
Life resume.

PS => My source for this NDE experiment was the International Skeptics forum.