But it was only when adults and two friends decide to try their first experiences. Michael, a professional anesthesiologist, can plunge into a voluntary Thanatonautes coma in order to make their death approaching more and more closely while Raoul, Research Scientist, is responsible for mapping the death and the development of new techniques.
To do this, they receive assistance from the President of the Republic himself, who survived an NDE (Near Death Experience) is the most curious of all to know what is really happening when our thanatonautique cord We retains more to our biological body.
They will be joined during their journey by other people who will eventually become pawns decisive for the rest of the story: Rose astronomer, Amandine nurse, Freddy Rabbi, Stefania Tibetan méditatrice. ...
Between the short chapters of books, which follow but do not look yet, there are lots of excerpts from different books of the dead and different mythology. I appreciated because many of these excerpts prove essential to understanding the rest of the story.
A story that me, I say clearly captivated from the first pages and I have gladly continued to the end! Strong moments, suspense, emotion, light and flowing style, very accessible, and punctuated with humor. Ah, Mr. Werber, you made me laugh. I particularly liked "The meeting with a deadly" and the story of Hitler and the bonsai. That he had to think, I had never seen it that way and yet it is obvious that jumps!
I also liked the tracks that this book brings to make us reflect on ourselves. Is it good to find answers to all the questions we ask ourselves? All truths must they be heard? Is it necessary to pierce the mysteries of our humanity?
Life or death? Love or hate? Cowardice or courage? The kindness or badness? A world of good wherever a world of collective suffering? Is there a happy medium? Do I have to choose, or are we inevitably doomed to our fate?
All these questions could summarize the course of the novel, because it is not only the discovery of the continent of the Dead, but especially that this discovery causes in society.
So leaving or not?
Another thing that pleased me greatly in this book are the angels. I liked the role that Bernard Werber gave them without them depend on God. Besides, no religion is emphasized in this book, different religions are merely quoted and sometimes taken into account in the assumptions, but I would call Michael, Raoul and agnostics band. Comes also a time when they must fight together against a strong religious conflict and agree on the fact that the afterlife does not belong to any dogma. So, whether you are Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist or otherwise, that history remains accessible to all, provided you do not take the first degree course.
Still, reading, it is clear that this is very believable stuff, because all the discoveries of our heroes are justified, overlap with one another and even find a scientific explanation. Therefore there is a part of me that can believe that, ultimately, death, right, and has that reassuring ....
But of course, we must remain lucid and do not forget that Thanatonautes, volunteers comas, and travel in the beyond which we returned unscathed to tell everything, it does not exist, at least not yet. Keep in mind that this is a fictional novel, and at that time, for us to let ourselves be carried through adventure!
This book was a real favorite for me. And on your side, how do you see death? Would you prefer to know or to stay in the dark until there comes the big day?
