Choose the correct answer.
Out-of-body experiences
(1) __________ most scientists dismiss tales of out-of-body experiences on the operating table as
dreams and delusions, there are some cases which seem to defy rational explanation. Take Margaret
Frobisher. In 2003, she was undergoing a routine operation under general anaesthetic at Sansdown
Hospital in Kent. There were serious complications, (2) __________ , and her heart stopped beating.
Try (3) __________ they might, the surgeon and anaesthetist were unable to resuscitate her. Finally,
after eight minutes, they succeeded. (4) __________ having been clinically dead, Margaret suffered no
brain damage and no adverse side effects. The story doesn't stop there, (5) __________ . When the
anaesthetist went to visit her in her hospital bed, Margaret Frobisher recounted an amazing story. She said
she vividly remembered floating above the operating table. And (6) __________ her never having been
conscious in that room at any time, she described the room and the resuscitation attempt in great detail.
She said that (7) __________ three of the walls were bright white, one was dark grey. This was true.
She also said that, on the top of a cabinet in a corner of the operating theatre, there was an old book.
(8) __________ the anaesthetist didn't - and couldn't - believe her, she checked. There, just as Margaret
Frobisher had described it, was the book. (9) __________ as they tried, no one at the hospital could
explain how Margaret could have known about the book. Even (10) __________ one does not believe in
a 'soul' or in life after death, it is difficult to explain what happened in that operating theatre when Margaret
Frobisher's heart stopped beating.
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