On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 20:57:23 -0400, scharkalvin
wrote:

Does this mean that I died on the operating table during my
open heart surgery last year, and awoke in a different reality
where I am still living?

Did the surgeons tell you they'd lost you for a while there? If so,
you might have been revived in that same reality in the usual way, or
else if such efforts failed, you'd then 'come round' in one of the
other remaining universes in which you didn't die, in an example the
so-called 'weak anthropic principle.'
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"I believe history will be kind to me, since I intend
to write it." - Winston Churchill