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My mum was in paliative care, June 2001, Burton Royal. Myself & sister were fortunate to spend her last week together with her. She was in a single room and the hospital even put a Z-bed next to hers for us. We did alternating shifts. During that week - my mum was essentially comatose - so holding her hand, I do what I always do, read. My subjects were: the Swiss watch industry and fake high-end watches, simulation theory and the Red Army Faction (RAF) or Baader-Meinhof group (I had to spell-check the latter and I cannot believe there's a B-M effect) anyway, I thought if I come across any mention of the RAF in the next two days, I will surrender to the simulation theory...
Now, remember my mum was on her last legs, so I'm not going to use her in some BS tale. On my mum's last day, my sister and me were both there. I went out to get a coffee, when my phone rang. 'Ian, you need to get back, it's time'
On my way back, I passed the WH Smith hospital store. Exiting the shop was an elderly patient in red pyjamas. The T-shirt had the Red Army Faction emblem. Pyjamas.
Now although I test the theory quite a lot, I still do not think we live in a computer. However, the existence of a Baader-Meinhof effect, does makes me wonder.
My mum passed away about five minutes later. She did see the light and point up to it in the top right corner of the room. Same place I saw it when I had sepsis/seal-finger (really, I was rescuing a baby seal in Bannf) when I was close to kicking the bucket in a hospital room...
I digress.
My sister told her to go to it.
Btw, Peter it sounds as though there's a good story within your post, but you might want to rewrite it to make it more available. Or is that just me?