4 (french) Werber, Bernard

- Me, that’s how I define a “friend”: it is whose betrayal
caused the greatest surprise. Raoul took me to the hospital
Saint-Louis, explaining we had to create a service involving
dying and coma. “Service of the dying,” had they
euphemistically called. It was installed in the left wing of an
annex building. I asked what he intended to do in such a
place. He replied bluntly that visit would be for us an
excellent opportunity to learn more.
- More? And on what? - On the death, of course! The idea
of entering a hospital not excited me not. The place is filled
with adults and I would be seriously surprised they let us
play.
Razorbak Raoul, however, was never short of arguments.
He told me to read in newspapers coma after people woke
up and told extraordinary stories. These survivors claimed
to have attended performances strange. They had not seen
snake boats or fire-eaters but attractive lights.
- You speak of experience at the frontiers of death, the
Americans call the NDE to “Near Death Experiences “? -
That’s it. Of NDE.
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Everyone knew what the NDE. They had been very