And one of the things that's striking is, how similar the experience is from person to person and from culture to culture-- that they've got some notion, as they were dead on the operating table, of leaving their body.

而其中最振奋的就是,不管一个人的,生活经验及文化背景,有多相似,他们都能感受到,当他们在手术台上死去,身体已经逝去

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It took 10 people to lift the sedated bear onto a make-shift operating table to have root canal done on the tooth.

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Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning shook off his neck brace and passed for more than 4, 000 yards, Minnesota running back Adrian Peterson jumped off the operating table and produced the second-highest rushing total in history, and Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis returned to the field just 12 weeks after tearing his triceps.

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The operating room itself contained a maze of plastic piping that twisted though the air between the heart-and-lung machine and the operating table.

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