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...Owen Thomas appeared dead on arrival at the New York Infirmary last December. His heart, liver, intestines and a lung had been slashed in a knife fight. The 20-year-old fish-market laborer had no pulse, no blood pressure and no breath left in a body that was already "very cold to touch," according to Dr. Daryl Isaacs, who was in charge of the emergency room. Yet five minutes later, Thomas' heartbeat was restored, a recovery that Isaacs described as "the most wondrous thing we've ever experienced...
...Owen Thomas had lived through what is sometimes called a near death experience (NDE), a vivid, memorable sense of sights, sounds and events that occur while an individual is clinically dead or very close to the point of no return. Discussion of this phenomenon and other aspects of dying achieved an almost faddish popularity in the early and mid-1970s, following the publication of two bestsellers: On Death and Dying, a study of terminally ill patients, by Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, and Life After Life, by Psychiatrist Raymond Moody...
...what he calls purely "autoscopic" experiences, in which they remember floating at ceiling height above the operating table (or battlefield) and looking down on their own lifeless bodies. About half had "transcendental" experiences, in which they recall traveling through a dark tunnel toward a bright light. Some, like Owen Thomas, encountered other figures or entered unearthly landscapes like those painted by Hieronymus Bosch. Several patients reported both autoscopic and transcendental elements...
Williams' victory also enhances her chances in the S.D.P.'s leadership contest. Since it was founded, the party has been led by four former Labor Cabinet ministers: Williams, Roy Jenkins, William Rodgers and David Owen. But the party will have to choose one designated leader before the next election, a choice that could cause a problem. Within the Social Democrats' inner circle, one faction wants the selection to be made on a one member-one vote basis, a procedure that would favor Williams, whose support is strong among the grass roots. Others want the choice...
...picked off a Garrity pass with five minutes left in the third quarter, but Acheson fumbled it away on the next play. Rocky Delgadillo came up with his weekly interception not long after, but a Cuccia-to-Callinan pitch three plays later was recovered by William and Mary's Owen Costello...