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They accidentally gave her something paralyzing, which closes down every muscle - also the heart. She knew she was going, buy couldn’t say anything as you also loose your ability to speak.
She was gone, but they noticed last minute and revived her, but she was gone for a couple minutes. She says she saw the white tunnel light and then saw herself from above the corner of the room laying there lifeless. She says it was very peaceful and not frightening at all. Almost like coming home.
My mom does not believe in life after d***h or anything that could be a bit supernatural, so I believe her. I’ve heard many stories like it afterwards.
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My experience of being gone was strange. I was conscious and I was me. It was dark but not because there was no light, but rather no sight.
I was a drop of water in a puddle in an ocean. I could feel all consciousnesses surrounding me while still autonomous. It was wonderful but they sent me back because I was back too soon.
I also had a similar experience in another asphyxiation situation so that really reinforced my lack of fear surrounding d***h. I look forward to it and will continue to push myself to enjoy this version of reality before I go. .
When people pass away, you don’t expect them to just come back to life, but the truth is that it can sometimes happen even if they are clinically dead. That’s mainly because of medical technologies designed to prolong human life, which can bring a person back even if their pulse cannot be felt or they’re unresponsive.
According to Walsh Medical Media, when a person’s heart doesn’t beat and their breathing stops, they’re considered deceased, but with the help of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), defibrillation, and epinephrine injections, they can be temporarily revived.
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I guess if doctors could poke the brain and turn off all senses, that will be as close as you'll get to understanding how it "feels". And then turn them back on when they stop poking it of course.
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Dying and coming back to life certainly sounds like something straight out of a movie, and the Cleveland Clinic calls it the Lazarus phenomenon. This effect gets its name from the story of Jesus bringing a man named Lazarus back to life, but don’t let that fool you into thinking everyone on this list has been resurrected.
In reality, when a person is declared dead from cardiac arrest and suddenly shows signs of life, it could be because their heart and circulation had not permanently stopped. This is called delayed return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), and medical literature has reported 76 cases of it in the last 40 years.
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While I’m in no hurry to d*e, I’m not worried about it like I used to be. And I sort of don’t grieve quite as much when loved ones d*e because, even if it’s just a chemical reaction, it’s a good one! Living is much scarier.
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Even though we can’t possibly know what things look like beyond this existence, surveys have found that nearly 55% of people are certain there is an afterlife, 37% are unsure about it, and 8% believe there’s nothing beyond this realm.
The thing is that folks who have had a near-death experience have a unique insight that we don’t have into what exists beyond this physical world. Some of them report bright lights, others mention feeling really calm, and a select few report absolutely nothing existing when they died. I guess it’s up to you to figure out whose account seems the most believable.
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I had an ablation soon thereafter and the arrhythmia was terminated, but since that event I’ve had random dreams that will later happen in real life & I see spirits quite a lot. It frightened me for a while but I’ve made peace with it.
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Then hurt like hell when being resuscitated.
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Neutropenic episode during chemo. My immune system crashed completely and 3 separate infections took hold immediately. I had an obe nde that night and when I woke up in the morning I "knew " I was about to just d*e. Within about an hour my temperature went from normal to at least 105 (as high as the oncology centers thermometer went) and I was wisked away for antibiotic infusions in a special isolation ICU for about 3 weeks.
Oddly I had a massive pulmonary embolism with congestive heart failure a few years ago and nothing. I was fully concious the entire time and kept thinking "I'm hurting I can't breathe... w*f am I still awake? When am I going to pass out already? " Nothing.. just had to deal with all of it. I guess deep down I knew if I went unconscious I wouldn't wake up.
All these experiences people have when they pass away could just be dismissed as the ramblings of a person going through something traumatic. Author and professor Sam Parnia challenges that, stating that when a person is dying, MRI and EEG machines show an explosion of brain activity, especially in areas associated with dreaming and altered states of consciousness.
This could corroborate testimonies of people having very lucid visions and experiences, as the brain’s high-frequency electrical activity shows up briefly and then vanishes. What this means for people nearing death is hard for us to understand, but it certainly adds an element of truth to the stories on this list.
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Suddenly, it was as though a universe-worth of information came rushing back into me, like a rapid download and I could see other perfect clarity the whole meaning of absolutely everything. Then, a bright light started to grow and grow in front of me and I felt gently pushed toward it until I was in a hospital bed again. I don’t know how I was aware of my surroundings then, but I woke up in a sunny room and my Mom was sitting nearby.
Again, no awareness of any time having passed at that moment came to me, but my Mom told me that I had been fighting to stay alive for 4-5 weeks in the ICU after my surgery (I received a double lung transplant) went very wrong.
The hardest part has been existing here while knowing all that I now know!
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Almost losing one’s life and then getting it back can be a very difficult experience to recover from, which is why scientists questioned adults who’ve been through this to understand what they learned from it.
Of the 17 people they spoke to, most said they became clearer about their priorities and felt that their daily frustrations no longer mattered. Instead, they realized how important it was to savor the good moments and never take the gift of being alive for granted.
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There was nothing after you're gone. In a way, it's comforting, if not a little heartbreaking.
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I don’t remember being d**d because it was just nothingness, but the life rushing back in was a really strange feeling.
It might seem like individuals who’ve been revived from death should have a brand-new perspective on life, but Jeffrey Long points out that many of the folks still struggle with the opinions of others. Rather than not caring what people in their lives thought of them, this concern still seems to take up a major chunk of their headspace.
This could be because people who felt their life was lost have a deeper appreciation for their family and friends and therefore worry about what their loved ones think. Therefore, it might not be possible to eliminate the fear of others’ opinions, but over time, those concerns could lessen.
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