Has anyone ever died?

[eddad]

I'm just curious if anyone here has had this happen to them. I don't remember a whole lot but...........

I remember a room it was pitch black and there were no corners but I knew it was a room (of sorts). I remember thinking "what a great place to take a nap" but I really wasn't tired and I really wanted to see my family. I don't remember seeing myself but I felt like me (know what I mean?) I then remember waking up and looking over the ventilator and seeing Jen (What a beautiful sight to wake up to ) anyone have a similar experience?

There was also lots of morphine being pumped into me at that time.

Just a weird thought that popped into my head.

 

[lisajl]

No, but that is interesting! A friend of mines father had a lot of morphine when he was diagnosed with leukemia. He said he saw things coming out of the wall to get him!
Not a feeling he wanted to have again!
Can't wait to see the responses to your question.


Glad you are here to tell us about it.

Lisa

 

[Honu]

I have. When I was diagnosed with diabetes at 18, the STUPID doctor assumed I had type 2 and prescribed oral medications for me. I ended up in ICU in a coma 7 days later and my heart stopped. I was down for for 1 minute and 37 seconds. All I remember was the room spinning, alarms and people running towards me. When I woke up I was completely disoriented. I had no idea why I would be in the hospital and I was horrified that I was nekkid with a bunch of people standing around.

I've also had some awesome Morphine dreams though.

 

[Phrebert]

I was in 5th grade and fell out of a tree. As I was being Life Flighted(please donate to your local ones!), I went into Cardiac Arrest 3 times. I not Dain Bramaged at all..

 

[DISUNC]

NOT ME....yet! Although there are a few people who would like to see it!


However my friend who is as straight laced as they come, swears that when he was having a tooth pulled, they knocked him out, he was hoverering over them watching the whole thing.
He even saw a nurse whom he never saw come into the room and leave. He mentioned this to the Dentist...and they were ! he nurse acctually was a temp who showed up AFTER my friend was knocked out.

 

[eddad]

Wow!

Honu I know how you felt. I woke up very confused, at least I could focus on one precious face that I recognized (all the machinery scared the crud out of me though)

Wow Phrebert Wow..................... but funny

DISUNC......Sounds like your friend had a totaly different experience.

Lisajl..........that sound horrifiing A little peice of my mind says there were a lot of drugs involved but somehow that does'nt ring right in my head

I feel really glad to be here and I'm sorry if my question sounds weird but I kinda type out everything I think before thinking

 

[swilphil]

I haven't personally experienced it, but I find the whole thing very interesting. My step-dad was electrocuted and kind of had a similar experience to yours. He said he felt very rested when he came to (via CPR).

Glad you're okay!

 

[luvmarypoppins]

My cousin said all he remembers is having the cop ask him to get out of the car. He remembered going to a baseball game with his friends, drinking a few beers, (that is why the cop pulled him over), but when he got out of the car he just collapsed. He had another heart attack. All he remembers is the cop saying stay with us Gary, stay with us and he knows they shocked him with the defibrillator 2 times. He doesnt remember the rest. He woke up in the hosp. He ended up getting 2 more stints. He has 7 now.
My sister had the same thing like you ed,a ruptured aorta due to marfans syndrome. I was not with her but my mom knows she was concious a little of the time. She had to have 7 operations in 5 days. Sadly she passed away. I couldnt be with her because I was giving birth to ds #3 halfway across the country. I pray she did not know too much of what was going on because it would break my heart if I knew she was suffering but my mom said they had her pretty drugged up because she kept trying to pull all the tubes out etc.
I am so glad you are on the road to recovery.

 

[diznygirl]

Ed - it might be a weird question if it was anyone but you asking!

Gave me a little chuckle cuz I read the thread title and thought, "well nobody I know except...hey! that's who posted!"

My cousin said all he remembers is having the cop ask him to get out of the car. He remembered going to a baseball game with his friends, drinking a few beers, (that is why the cop pulled him over), but when he got out of the car he just collapsed. He had another heart attack. All he remembers is the cop saying stay with us Gary, stay with us and he knows they shocked him with the defibrillator 2 times. He doesnt remember the rest. He woke up in the hosp. He ended up getting 2 more stints. He has 7 now.

I have a friend who is a paramedic. She says that she did that during one call, kept saying hang in there, stay with us. Later the guy says that he did hear her and that's what he focused on to come back.

 

[Tiziminchac]

I've haven't died (yet), but I'm interested in others experiences. I find it a coincidence that you posted this because just yesterday I was checking out a site I found online about the phenomenon. Check it out, if you like...


http://www.near-death.com/index.html

 

[mom2taylorandemily]

DH was on the heart & lung machine for open heart surgery a few years ago, he said he remembers having a sort of out of body experience, like he was looking down at his operation. Sounds weird, and he couldn't tell me what they were doing. Then during his drug induced coma, he said he could feel warm fuzzies, like people he loved was around him, but he couldn't see them.

 

[JennyMominRI]

Do you all see the crazy nutcase I live with?

I will say that he thought he saw the cat in the room with him. He though he was on a boat. He thought they had a big party for him one night. He thought there were babies in the room with him...
and one time when the nurse asked him if he needed anything, he answered "unlimited sex"

He's going to kill me for that last one

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Years ago, my brother was in a car accident and he died. They resuscitated him in the ambulance. I was a kid when it happened, but I had always been fascinated by it. I would ask him if he saw anything, and he would get mad at me for asking.

He died for real in 2003.

The most fascinating story is from my dad. After he buried my brother in June 2003, 5 months later, one of my other brothers was dx's with a brain tumor. Dad was driving him to his radiation treatments. Dad was sick, but would not get looked at. Eventually, his wife called an ambulance because he had a hard time breathing. He had pneumonia. His lungs were so bad, he was put on life support. He was on life support for a week. He came off of it. He told me that he was presented with two doors. He was told to pick a door. he picked a door, and woke up. He joked that if he picked the other door, it would be a pine box.

While he was recuperating, my brother suffered some brain seizures. He did not know who any of us was, or what year it was. he was out of it. We decided not to tell dad. Well, his wife and my sister told him my brother was in the hospital. The very next morning, my sister was giving him a nebulizer treatment and he went unresponsive. They rushed him to the hospital where he was put on life support until we could all be there. Then we had them shut it off. He died in less than 5 minutes.

Here is what I think. Dad was presented with 2 doors. He picked the right one the 1st time, but the second time, knowing his oldest son was going to die, and he had already buried a son, he knew which door to pick.

I don't think what my dad experienced was a dream at all.

 

[BMNABrinx]

My mom & DD have had strange experiences.

My mom told us about an out of body experience when she was in the hospital following a gall bladder attack. They weren't sure what was going on. She was also a heart patient and would frequently just pass out. She passed out while in the hospital bed. My DH (boyfriend at the time) was in the room with her. He called for the nurse and when they got to the room they thought my mom was dead. She said she was looking down at them telling them "I'm still alive! I'm not dead!" but they couldn't hear her! She said she even "walked" to the nurses station while they called the dr. When he came in he elevated her feet and put a cold cloth on the back of her neck and she opened her eyes. Weird, huh?

My DD was 4 when she had open heart surgery. She told us EVERYTHING about the surgery. I later compared it to the surgical notes and she was right on everything. It was really kinda scary. When we told the doctor about what she told us he was amazed. He said it was "like she was watching". Yep, that's what she said too!

I don't know if I really want to have any experiences like that.

 

[eddad]

Years ago, my brother was in a car accident and he died. They resuscitated him in the ambulance. I was a kid when it happened, but I had always been fascinated by it. I would ask him if he saw anything, and he would get mad at me for asking.

He died for real in 2003.

The most fascinating story is from my dad. After he buried my brother in June 2003, 5 months later, one of my other brothers was dx's with a brain tumor. Dad was driving him to his radiation treatments. Dad was sick, but would not get looked at. Eventually, his wife called an ambulance because he had a hard time breathing. He had pneumonia. His lungs were so bad, he was put on life support. He was on life support for a week. He came off of it. He told me that he was presented with two doors. He was told to pick a door. he picked a door, and woke up. He joked that if he picked the other door, it would be a pine box.

While he was recuperating, my brother suffered some brain seizures. He did not know who any of us was, or what year it was. he was out of it. We decided not to tell dad. Well, his wife and my sister told him my brother was in the hospital. The very next morning, my sister was giving him a nebulizer treatment and he went unresponsive. They rushed him to the hospital where he was put on life support until we could all be there. Then we had them shut it off. He died in less than 5 minutes.

Here is what I think. Dad was presented with 2 doors. He picked the right one the 1st time, but the second time, knowing his oldest son was going to die, and he had already buried a son, he knew which door to pick.

I don't think what my dad experienced was a dream at all.

Wow! Just WOW! I feel that this is similiar "sleep or not to sleep" or "Two doors" and hugs for you

And yes Jen you're gonna get it

 

[eddad]

I don't know if I really want to have any experiences like that.

Yep! The preparation is a pain and I think I've lost the ability to puctuate/spell correctly

 

[Narnian_Princess]

One of my best friends died after being run over by a car when he was 4; he was resuscitated 3 minutes later and is one of the smartest, most talented people I know today. I have no idea whether he saw anything though, I'd have to ask. Though one time we were on the subject of Heaven and another friend asked, "how do you know Heaven is there?" and I said "ask ____, he should know!" Then ____ replied, "That wasn't Heaven." Classic!

 

[klmall]

I nearly "died" from a bad reaction to sulfa when I was 24 and hiking with a group on a remote part of Isle Royale in Lake Superior. I still remember watching the whole event play out above myself as an observer and what various people said and did. Some of the details of that night are vague now but the event dramatically affected me for many, many years. I rarely talk about the whole thing any more; it's almost embarassing in a way for some reason. In fact, I began to doubt parts of my experience when I read that some scientists feel that humans experience similar "visions of a tunnel of light" as a result of oxygen deprivation. But overall, it was a pleasant, comforting experience and I no longer fear death in the same way.

 

[Happywanderer]

When I was about six or so I began to experience sudden nose bleeds. The doctor didn't know why, just told my parents I would "grow" out of them. Well, one night I think I might have "died". I can't prove it, but I remember being in a garden and walking through it. There were people there who seemed to know me, but I didn't know them. Then I was in front of a door and it opened and a very bright light came from it, and also with it a feeling of incredible love--something I've never experience before, or since. Then a voice spoke and told me it was not my time yet. Then I woke up.

Was it a dream or did I have a near death experience. I believe it was a near death experience. By the way, after that happened I never had another nose-bleed.

 

[JoyG]

My grandmother had a near death experience when going through hard labor with her last child.

She describes being in a field of flowers...only the flowers were the brightest, sweetest smelling flowers she'd ever seen. She says they stood straight up like pencils and didn't bend over at all.