There is only a fine line between life and death...

Talking about life and death, its always a very interesting topic for people to talk to after meal, but not many take it seriously. Its a very very important and serious matter that everyone of us should be aware of, life and death is just separated by a breath...

3 days ago, my class were doing an experiment, the dissection of rats. So to faint and kill the rats, we used ether to do so, the effect of ether on human is pretty mild, if only a huge amount of this chemical is inhaled, then it will cause difficulty in breathing and so on, and if it is too severe, it might lead to death. So happily we did our interesting experiment, and at the end of the experiment, we cleaned our stuff and went back to our class. Job done! We thought....

Then the unexpected happened. One of my friend who went to throw away the waste, came back in a pretty awful condition, he was finding hard to catch his breath, and suffered from headache and  chest pain. At first when we saw this, we knew this is the effect of over inhaling of ether, but we thought that he could recover after resting for w awhile under the fan, but he didn't. Later on he lost all his strength and couldn't walk by himself, then we ran to the PBSM to get the stretcher to get him down to the PBSM room. Now everyone realised how serious this is. we started to do everything we could, including triggering him to vomit, which will help him to eliminate some of the ether. Then, he loses all his strength, and we were trying all we could to keep him awake. I was there when I saw his eyes were not going right, its a symptom when one is going off. There and then, we could have lost him....

But thank God he managed to survived this accident that no one would have expected. There and then he could have lost his life. Its only a breath separating it. And if now you're still taking life for granted, please think twice, because life and death is separated  only by a fine line. And if you are leaving the earth today, do you know where are you heading? A question for everyone  of us to answer, life and death, heaven or hell....