We've all thought about death at one stage or another. We have all thought about how it would happen, how it would feel, what goes through your mind.
Well, if you want to know more look no further, because someone has set up a Reddit thread asking people who have been pronounced dead and then later resuscitated about their experiences.
User u/Aidanmartin3 asked: "Redditors who were pronounced dead and resuscitated, what did you go through mentally while being pronounced dead?"
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In response, one person wrote: "I got hit by a car. I could still see with my eye that didn't have blood in it. I could hear all the commotion. I felt getting forced into my back and then CPR. I felt my first heartbeat and then blood flowing through my body and at that point I felt all the pain took a deep breath and then everything went black."
Another explained how a member of staff working for them got poorly and was admitted to hospital. They went on: "I was visiting him in his hospital room and his wife was also in the room. He kind of blanked out and then the equipment hooked up to him started beeping, alarms were going off. He flat lined.
"Many doctors and nurses rushed into the room and they tried to resuscitate him. We were eventually ordered out of the room. They came out about a half hour later and told us that they were successful in resuscitation. I wasn't allowed to see him again until several days later.
"At that time he told me what he observed during the ordeal. He said that he observed the entire episode from a third person point of view, he saw the whole thing including me and his wife in the room."
Putting any worried minds at ease, someone else shared: "They told me I was dead for three minutes, I remember those clips of people saying they experienced some kind of near-afterlife, but for me it was like sleeping, I woke up, they told me how I almost died, I said oh yeah?
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"They explained a bunch of stuff and then offered me a grilled cheese. I had Doritos too. 10/10 would die again, it's just nothingness, not scary at all."
Does anyone else feel strangely comforted by this? Can't just be me.
Another oddly easing memory is from someone who claims they 'died once', adding: "I don't remember much about it except there was a nice, dark nothingness which I guess felt kind of cozy, but I also knew it was the end.
"I don't know, I knew I wasn't supposed to go into the dark. Like I was in the dark, but I wasn't supposed to be enjoying it, because if I embraced it too much I would die. I'm generally not that scared of death these days.
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"It was kind of like falling asleep and kinda vaguely remembering a dream when you wake up. All I really have are feelings, not a solid picture or an image or anything like that."
You can read the full thread here.
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