Hehh...been wondering about that.

I think maybe I died from pneumonia back in September of
2001. The lab told me it was a "world record in sedimentation
rate" (correct term in English?).

No memory of the last days of it...just sort of came to after
weeks of struggling with high fever, impossible headache,
breathing problems and utter weakness as an "outpatient" on
the kitchen sofa (lived big back then, family man and all).

The fever had suddenly broken, I could finally manage switching
on the kitchen TV to watch the news, without too much pain
to the eyes.

Every channel showed a totally surreal drama of two giant, well
known skyscrapers in New York turning to dust, with a lot of
people still inside them.



Heard the same phrase in Finnish, Swedish, German, French,
Russian etc etc: "The world has changed forever!" like a
global mantra chant.

Absolutely surreal, yet strangely familiar, somehow.

Since then, life has been more or less like that 'Jacob's Ladder'
movie with Tim Robbins, remember...more absurd by the day.

Who knows.