Floating death

Near-death experiences (NDEs) are sometimes reported by people who have nearly died or have been clinically dead and revived. During the experience, people sometimes have the sensation of floating above their bodies and seeing a tunnel of light. 

Another effect related to the charge characteristics of AVE is the apparent absence of cytotoxicity as indicated by complete absence of cell death. This has been shown in a concentration-dependent (Figure 4) and a time-dependent fashion (Figure 5). The cellular protein concentration curve remains flat over a range of 5-40 4g DNA, corresponding to 15-120 4g of total lipid (Figure 4). No rounded-up or floating cells were found by microscopic observation at any concentration or time point. 

Because the yeasts used begin to suffer thermal death at temperatures close to 100° F (37.78° C), a maximum fermentor temperature of between 80° and 90° F (26.67° and 32.22° C) is accepted generally. As the fermentation proceeds from an initial 23-24 percent soluble solids, down to approximately 18 percent soluble solids, the temperature rises quite rapidly. The lesser density of the pomace, coupled with the floatation effect caused by the generation of C02 by the fermentation, causes the pomace to float above the juice. This is known as the cap. ... 

Landers D, Seppi K, and Blauer W (1985) Seizures and death on a white river float trip - Report of water hemlock poisoning. The Western Journal of Medicine 142 637-640. 

There were 17 well-defined cases of typhoid fever, with one death, and 83 cases of gastro-enteritis (diarrhoea) traced directly to eating Rockaway oysters from Jamaica Bay, floated at Indian Creek, near Canarsie, Long Island, N. Y. 

In aquatic plants adverse effects of mercury such as senescence, growth inhibition, decreased chlorophyll, protein and RNA content, inhibited catalase and protease activities, inhibited and abnormal mitotic activity, increased free amino acid content, discoloration of floating leaves, leaf and root necrosis, and death have been reported (Muramoto and Oki 1984, Mhatre and Cha-phekar 1985, Sarkar and Jana 1986). The level of mercury that results in toxic effects in aquatic plants varies greatly. Freshwater concentrations of between 50 and 3400 pg Hg " " or 0.8 to 6 pg methyl-mercury are toxic to plants, and for salt water 10 pg Hg " " for algae and 160 pg Hg " for seaweed are reported. No data are available on methylmercury in saltwater plants (EPA 1997). 

Fig. 1. Hazard ratios, with 95% confidence intervals as floating absolute risks, as estimate of association between category of update mean HbAlc concentration and any end point or deaths related to diabetes and all cause mortality. Reference category (hazard ratio 1.0) is HbAlc <6% with log-linear scales, p-value reflects contribution of glycaemia to multivariate model. Data adjusted for age at diagnosis of diabetes, sex, ethnic group, smoking, presence of albuminuria, systolic blood pressure, high- and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and triglycerides [2].

The introduction of petroleum into the marine environment is a direct consequence of the production and transportation of crude oil and refined products. Oil spills have justifiably earned ill fame for polluting the environment by being responsible for some of the worst environmental disasters in (recent) human history. Oil spills jeopardize the dissolved oxygen-dependent aquatic life because the oil film acts as a barrier for oxygen transport across the air-water interface. Seabirds are unable to fly or even float on water once oil wets their feathers, thus leading to their untimely death. In addition to aesthetic and ecological concerns, coastal regions... 

This final picture of the dust floating down on him brings a posthumous reunion with Alice. Even as they are finally drawn together in the anonymous materiality of death, they picture a world which, like our own and that of the audience, is facing its own final page. 

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