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2	''Passage'' is a 2002 novel by Creator/ConnieWillis.
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4	Joanna Lander is a psychologist studying what people experience when they have {{near death experience}}s and becomes frustrated when many show signs of giving inaccurate information (especially after having talked to Dr. Maurice Mandrake, whose methods are less scientific than Joanna's).
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6	Then Dr. Richard Wright contacts her and tells her he has found a drug that can simulate an NDE and invites her to interview the patients after they take the drug. After finding there aren't enough volunteers, however, Joanna decides to give herself the drug...but when she does, she finds the experience much different than she imagines. She finds herself on what seems to be the RMS ''Titanic''.
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8	[[SimilarlyNamedWorks Unrelated to]] the 2007 [[FreewareGames freeware]] game [[VideoGame/{{Passage}} of the same name.]] It is also unrelated to ''Literature/ThePassage'', a 2010 book by Justin Cronin, or to film ''Film/ThePassage'', a 1979 adaptation of ''Literature/PerilousPassage'' novel.
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12	* AnyoneCanDie: Even the [[spoiler:main character]].
13	* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Joanna dies, but Maisie Nellis is able to survive a heart transplant thanks to her research.]]
14	* {{Doorstopper}}: 800 pages.
15	* DyingDream: [[spoiler: Joanna's perspective in the last quarter of the book, though there's some YMMV: it's possible to read the last chapter as a hint of Joanna entering some kind of afterlife.]]
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17	* HospitalHottie: Richard Wright, definitely. Multiple women comment on how cute he is.
18	%%* InMysteriousWays
19	* LittlestCancerPatient: Maisie Nellis.
20	* NearDeathExperience: What Joanna and Richard are studying.
21	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: A non-talkative Maisie when she thinks [[spoiler: Joanna has left without saying goodbye and can't be bothered to contact her.]]
22	* ShipperOnDeck: Maisie, near the end of the book. [[spoiler: She keeps trying to get Kit and Richard together.]] Too bad there's [[NoRomanticResolution no word on whether she's successful.]]
23	%%* SmugSnake: Dr. Maurice Mandrake.

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