Have you had a near death experience?

[NightmareTour]

It's for a little experiment. Mods, please don't move this if at all possible, it's better if it's here rather than in off-topic.

 

[MichaelNomad123]

Yes sort of, a few times, but I'm not sure if it counts. I almost got run over when I was skating as a teenager. I was going too fast into a blind spot and a car was doing the same. If I wasn't so quick and they were not so quick, I was for sure dead. I took myself immediately home after that happened because I was so shook up.

If you mean more certain death, then yes too. I had a misdiagnosed septicemia and very almost died before they got antibiotics in me. My doctor fucked up, basically. I wasn't very conscious or aware of much of anything. When I was lucid, I couldn't communicate and my body was so weak that I didn't care to or care to try to move. I was too weak to contemplate mortality or have any sadness. It just kind of "was". It's how I imagine dying from old age is. Quiet and easy.

 

[Risa]

It's for a little experiment. Mods, please don't move this if at all possible, it's better if it's here rather than in off-topic.

I didn't have one but somebody I once knew died in a standart procedure in hospital . I don't know how long she was gone but they were able to revive her. She told me while she was out she left her body and saw the operating room from above and the doctors trying to get her back then she went trough the walls and saw her family outside waiting for her (while she was being operated on). That's all I remember.

 

[Buffy5120]

I didn't have one but somebody I once knew died in a standart procedure in hospital . I don't know how long she was gone but they were able to revive her. She told me while she was out she left her body and saw the operating room from above and the doctors trying to get her back then she went trough the walls and saw her family outside waiting for her (while she was being operated on). That's all I remember.

Yup weird how i researched this last night...but anyways i read stories about people having a near death experienced and most of them have similiar stories...where they see their body and see their family and generally felt so peaceful...so thats why alot of you shouldn't be scared of death....im still here because im scared of failing and being trapped here on earth even longer....sometimes i also say its really messed up because there was alot of things that i wanted to do here on earth but bc of my illnesses i know that will never happen

 

[Deleted member 17949]

I want a death experience

 

[Sinkinshyp]

I was on life support twice. First time I was 18 and I had a 14 hour cancer surgery, it was my 3rd in a month. I developed a large clot in my neck and had to be rushed back to surgery to remove it and landed on life support. While they were running down the halls in the hospital gurney they were poking my feet my legs all over trying to get blood. I felt so calm, so peaceful I just wanted to go. When they got to the OR my lungs closed shut and I gasped I can't breathe. I only remember waking up on life support.. and yes afterwards I was a changed person. I don't know why. In 2013 I had respiratory failure from emphysema and cold germs. They had to put me on life support in a medical induced coma to give my lungs time to heal. My son who died in a car accident 3 years ago at 25 was 21 at the time. Docs sat my mom and son down told them I had less than a 30% chance to live. If I did I would never breathe on my own again, my lungs were to damaged. They said they were giving choices and they had 10 days to decide normally they give 30. shut off life support or allow them to put like a trach in so I can be hooked up to a ventilator for the rest of my life. If they did NOT decide in 10 days the docs were and they were turning off life support. My mom said or we can shut off life support now.. the main doc I guess stood up pointed at Joey and said that is her next of kin he is 21 years old. While in life support I guess they would bring me in and out of the coma and at one point I wasn't coming out of it. They said I was dying. I ended up waking up totally on my own after that. I dont use oxygen and can breathe fine as long as I don't have to rush... anyway coming out of that life support I KNOW I was given a message. I can't tell you what it was because I can't remember. I guess when the time is right I will remember this message.
due to that life support I have researched NDE's a lot. Something happened to me when I wasn't coming out of the coma. I can't say what. The respiratory guy who had to qualify me for oxygen to leave the hospital said I was on your crash team. I said whats that- well when I coded he was part of my team to come in. He asid we were always on edge with you I can't believe you are here.

 

[Risa]

Yup weird how i researched this last night...but anyways i read stories about people having a near death experienced and most of them have similiar stories...where they see their body and see their family and generally felt so peaceful...so thats why alot of you shouldn't be scared of death....im not just about failing and being trapped here on earth even longer....sometimes i also say its really messed up because there was alot of things that i wanted to do here on earth but bc of my illnesses i know that will never happen

I'm the same. If I was healthy I would have a list of things I still would like to do.
But I don't know a lot of people also just had nothingness I read. But I read on a case where the part for the brain that is needed to create hallucinations (because that's what doctors say it could be) was already not functioning anymore and that person still had a nde. Oh now I remember I also met an actual doctor who had an nde, she had some heart failure or something like that and she was dead for straight 40 minutes. She remembers being a soul, pure light and joy. She found herself in a place full of souls and she says it was the happiest and most loved she ever felt. Before that she was an atheist.

 

[NightmareTour]

I had an infection in my brain and septicemia (not sure if the septicemia went to my brain or the other way around) and was basically told I was faking for attention or being lazy, and I just had gastroenteritis. My mum found me in a coma the next morning (apparently nobody had thought to check on me) and I had 3 strokes, one of which left me clinically dead for a little while. Also nearly lost my left leg and potentially my left arm. Everyone was told I wouldn't live, and said their goodbyes.

I had a weird dream about being taken out onto the street, walking off for a bit and then being told to come back, but I'm not sure if that was the coma or the death. I do remember the purest nothingness though, like when you pass out and stop being aware of anything, then you suddenly wake up somewhere else. Again, not sure if that was the dying part or not.

 

[Sinkinshyp]

I'm the same. If I was healthy I would have a list of things I still would like to do.
But I don't know a lot of people also just had nothingness I read. But I read on a case where the part for the brain that is needed to create hallucinations (because that's what doctors say it could be) was already not functioning anymore and that person still had a nde. Oh now I remember I also met an actual doctor who had an nde, she had some heart failure or something like that and she was dead for straight 40 minutes. She remembers being a soul, pure light and joy. She found herself in a place full of souls and she says it was the happiest and most loved she ever felt. Before that she was an atheist.

in my NDE research the ones that really made me know it is real are the doctors- who prior didn't believe. When they've had patients come back and tell them what was going on or they themselves had an NDE and now believe. Those ones made me KNOW yes there is more

 

[Risa]

I had an infection in my brain and septicemia (not sure if the septicemia went to my brain or the other way around) and was basically told I was faking for attention or being lazy, and I just had gastroenteritis. My mum found me in a coma the next morning (apparently nobody had thought to check on me) and I had 3 strokes, one of which left me clinically dead for a little while. Also nearly lost my left leg and potentially my left arm. Everyone was told I wouldn't live, and said their goodbyes.

I had a weird dream about being taken out onto the street, walking off for a bit and then being told to come back, but I'm not sure if that was the coma or the death. I do remember the purest nothingness though, like when you pass out and stop being aware of anything, then you suddenly wake up somewhere else. Again, not sure if that was the dying part or not.

Do you like the thought of an afterlife? People often hear a voice that tells them to go back. Also a lot of people on this forum don't want that or are literally scared of reincarnation. I actually used to like the thought of reincarnation but yesterday I thought if I was forced to come back over and over and over again that would suck. Actually I just want somebody to ask me if I want to and then I decide. But if reincarnation is a thing it makes sense we can't remember. If we would humans would just kill themselves until they have a life that fits them right. Also life would feel less valuable. It would be a mess.

 

[NightmareTour]

Do you like the thought of an afterlife? People often hear a voice that tells them to go back. Also a lot of people on this forum don't want that or are literally scared of reincarnation. I actually used to like the thought of reincarnation but yesterday I thought if I was forced to come back over and over and over again that would suck. Actually I just want somebody to ask me if I want to and then I decide. But if reincarnation is a thing it makes sense we can't remember. If we would humans would just kill themselves until they have a life that fits them right. Also life would feel less valuable. It would be a mess.

I definitely wouldn't want to be reincarnated. This world is awful, humanity is destroying itself and everything around it, and there doesn't seem to be anything anyone can do about it because most people don't want it to change. I think that no matter who, what or where you are, there's just an immense amount of suffering. Not a place that I want to keep being a part of.

 

[Lilacmoon]

reincarnation would just be asking to be hurt again. :/

 

[Sea of Blood]

Quite a few times, mostly as a child and a preteen. Ever since, I think I've gotten more careful.

 

[Deleted member 94]

I had an infection in my brain and septicemia (not sure if the septicemia went to my brain or the other way around) and was basically told I was faking for attention or being lazy, and I just had gastroenteritis. My mum found me in a coma the next morning (apparently nobody had thought to check on me) and I had 3 strokes, one of which left me clinically dead for a little while. Also nearly lost my left leg and potentially my left arm. Everyone was told I wouldn't live, and said their goodbyes.

I had a weird dream about being taken out onto the street, walking off for a bit and then being told to come back, but I'm not sure if that was the coma or the death. I do remember the purest nothingness though, like when you pass out and stop being aware of anything, then you suddenly wake up somewhere else. Again, not sure if that was the dying part or not.

Attempted twice once found by doctors not breathing there was no awareness after closing my eyes, same as anesthesia for surgery.

 

[Risa]

I definitely wouldn't want to be reincarnated. This world is awful, humanity is destroying itself and everything around it, and there doesn't seem to be anything anyone can do about it because most people don't want it to change. I think that no matter who, what or where you are, there's just an immense amount of suffering. Not a place that I want to keep being a part of.

I think you're right. Even though I think people want change the problem is they also want privelege (doesn't matter what kind). Privelege seems like safety. Group building seems like safety. I think that's underneath. It's always we and the others. Maybe even humans and nature. People always think about their survival, their comfort. When we're fine and far enough away we love ignoring other things. We watch news like it's a movie then have deep conversations about it. Makes us feel good and intellectual . People only get things when they happen right in front of them, makes them feel the terror or affect them. Also when stuff is sold to them in an entertaining way, because who doesn't like fun. But corruption fucks everything up in the end anyway. I think about this a lot. I think (really) most people want to be good it's just human limitation. I mean look how hard it is to explain to people why you want to die. They don't feel your pain. Sorry off-topic.

 

[Deleted member 94]

I once ghosted a particular suicide partner a year from when she posted on jar forum she was living the dream life in Barbados. Existence is fleeting it can turn at the flip of coin if you're not well equipped to handle the situation.

 

[alonely]

I had an experience where I was being strangled and remember starting to fade out and thinking that this was it and letting go.