The science of opinion ...

...and dinner's ready...

Tonight: Norwegian Chinese.

Keep bangin' the rocks together...;)

geoffkait,

"Do you recall what Clemenceau once said about war?"

"When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right."

If you are talking about Georges Clemenceau, I am not sure when he said that, but he died in 1929. It is not 1979 anymore. It is 2019.

@glupson...That's the problem with life sentences...you're only truly dead in the joint if you die of natural causes in a permanent fashion, or someone makes you that way....
As for the latter, it's a toss whether it's better to have the authorities or a jail mate do the deed.

I suspect deep anesthesia is very similar to death in some ways.
You 'go under'...there's no dreams, until your consciousness slowly returns.  Awareness that you're again aware of being 'back'...sound returns like a volume control rising, again slowly.

Then you become aware of the plastic breathing tube that's still crammed into your mouth it's uncomfortable and getting more so because it's sticking to the sides of your mouth and throat because your mouth is dry as paper...

"Uhgulblth!"

"....he's waking...We'll get that out of your mouth in a moment..."
(You're finally aware that they're still setting up in Recovery, but you still can't see...but you think 'not soon enough, dammit...')

"mmfth"  Your eyes are open but focus is just starting to work.  The room an out-of-focus fishbowl that begins to make sense...

You take a deep breath...without the oxygen mask you've had for 3 days prior....

It worked...It works.  Wow.... 

asvjerry,

General anesthesia is, in fact, one step from death but this was the first time I saw those moments described in such a detail. You obviously have a very vivid memory of that time.Thank you.

At times, it can be a step cavalier a bit too much. Michael Jackosn would attest, if he only could.

Rather profound...it's etched into my memory, I can still recall that damn breathing tube....

But other than the 2 catheter entry points on my thighs...painless.

And it was like having a switch flipped.  It's that instantaneous.