Conditional Reality

Freezerburn Soapscum suffered a heart attack while waiting for a bus. The ambulance arrived promptly and took him to the hospital where surgeons immediately set to work, cutting him open and beginning the procedures for bypass. Freezerburn, his mouth hung open in wonderment, sat watching the red activity like a gargoyle, hunched in the air above the operating table with his hands wrapped around his knees. A tremendous white light permeated the air in his vicinity. Freezerburn could not tell where the light was coming from. He closed his mouth. The light disappeared and Freezerburn fell back to his body.