Hearing and touch typically hold out a little longer, but they eventually go, too. A study published in Scientific Reports in found that hearing was usually the longest-lasting sense before death. An AskReddit thread called for people who have been clinically dead to describe what they felt during their experience, and some said that dying felt like slipping into dreamland.
Furthermore, a lot of these dreams and visions featured loved ones who had already died. In many cases, they were comforting, rather than frightening. According to research from published in PNAS, the brain experiences a surge of activity right before death. Lead study author Jimo Borjigin, Ph. If anything, it is much more active during the dying process than even with the waking state. If people are asked what it feels like to die, they might say they expect their life to flash before their eyes.
But it turns out that memories just before death might not be flashes at all. So while you may see things from your past, it could be more like a rich, multi-layered movie of your life than a few brief flashes. If a traumatic physical injury or an allergic reaction is the cause of death, you might expect it to hurt. San Francisco writer and activist Cris Gutierrez died of pancreatic cancer on Aug.
She wrote about the pain that has resulted from areas of her body shutting down from the cancer, or from complications from it. She talked about the mental frustration of not being able to do all of the things she wanted to do. I just want to die in not too much pain, surrounded by the ones I love. I want to help them find what peace they can in the time remaining. And if you want to give me a special going away present, spread the word about the BCRA gene.
What would Homer Simpson do? My last two thoughts before I slipped into oblivion — what the football scores would be tomorrow, specifically, that some people would know them, and I would not, because I'd be dead. And, I'd quite like to watch some old Simpsons right now. That was it. Nothing about my family, friends.
Glad I woke up though. Death is like the "darkest dark and silent silence. The doctors say it's likely the first hit stopped my heart and the second one started it before I was pulled like a lifeless corpse to safety. I remember experiencing the darkest dark and the most silent silence.
I ceased to care that I was dying; time seemed to change, it could have been hours it seemed. It was only about 30 seconds. I felt as though I was floating and floated toward something that I eventually realized was my body and reality. Upon joining with whatever it was I was floating towards, I became self-aware in my body and heard the electricity making horrible noises and knew I was in danger. From there it was a horribly painful experience where I lost most of my toes due to tissue death and had severe electrical burns on all four limbs.
More surgeries than I care to count and seeing the round bone ends of my toes that were freshly amputated still haunts me a little. There's a big misconception about it. It's not like sleeping at all. I'll try to explain. There's always a sort of white noise in the back of my mind. It quiets down when I sleep but it's still there. I never noticed it before I died, but I do now. I don't want to romanticize death, but when I was out, it was like this perfect nothingness.
And nothingness is so hard to imagine normally, but once you "experience" it, and they bring you back, part of you wishes you could have stayed. There's no positive feelings there, obviously, but it takes away everything bad, too. All your stress, the nightmares, the troubles. All gone. Just nothing exists. It's beautiful in a way.
I'm not suicidal at all, and hope to live the rest of a long and happy life. But I'm very much looking forward to a lack of consciousness when I do eventually pass again, and I can honestly say I don't fear death anymore. She never wanted to leave that state. A middle-aged man who wasn't in scrubs standing still at the end of my bed while all staff were running around and doing their business.
I was having a non-verbal conversation with him and he was telling me to calm down, focus on breathing. He wore a tropical style button down shirt, one of those old school news boys hats and had a very pleasant demeanor. Mom showed me a photo of my grampa that I never had seen before, and it was the guy at the foot of my bed, and he died before I was even born.
I think she was out for 90 seconds or close to it. What will be its circumstances? Peaceful, I hope. And, very simply — what does it feel like to die? In scientific literature, there are numerous reports of people who have had similar experiences to Muamba, many involving light. The oldest medical description of a near-death experience, from the 18th century , recounts the tale of a French apothecary who lost consciousness during blood-letting, a treatment believed by physicians at the time to relieve fever.
More recent recollections include seeing bright lights, sensations of entering an unearthly realm and occasionally the feeling of leaving the body and viewing it from above, known as an out-of-body experience. In many cases, researchers were also asking people to recollect events that happened decades earlier, the details of which may have been changed, or lost in the mists of time. Then medical researcher Sam Parnia and his colleagues decided to take a more objective approach.
Of the 63, seven could recall thoughts from the time they were unconscious. They included coming to a point or border of no return, feelings of peace and, in one case, jumping off a mountain.
So, while only a minority could remember being close to death, what could be recalled was generally positive. Surprisingly, the patients able to recall their experiences actually had the highest blood-oxygen levels — feelings such as heightened sensual awareness had previously been thought to result from brain-oxygen starvation.
Yet better brain oxygenation would allow for improved cognitive function during the resuscitation, explaining more vivid experiences and the ability to commit them to memory.
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