Looking up-canyon on the lip of the gorge, a sharp shadowline creeps up the volcanic slabs on the other side. The light suddenly suffuses everything, and becomes ethereal, like nothing…
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dying
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When I was in junior high school, bored classmates and I would hold breath-holding contests. Since I could hold my breath for 4 minutes, I usually won. Natalia Molchanova, the greatest freediver in history who died last Sunday in a “fun” dive off the coast of Spain, could hold her breath for 9 minutes!
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Although I felt like I was the only person in the world; with basically no friends or family there beside me on this journey through hell, I was surrounded by…
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Over the next few days as I remained in the ICU, I was finally putting together what had happened to me. I had literally died for a short time on…
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Not even an hour went by since I had thought about returning to a life of drinking and drugs that things took a turn for the worse. As I lay…
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The room began to come into focus as I awoke from the anesthesia. I was caught in-between reality and dream. I almost thought that everything that happened had been a…