what does death feel like?

Answer 1

Surely it varies physiologically based on death circumstances. Psychologically, the brain releases a hallucinogen known as DMT, or dimethyltryptamine. This chemical is also found in nature and is used religiously within S. American tribes in the form of snuffs or drinks. It is considered one of the most potent hallucinogens known to man. Someone compared smoking a dose of it as taking 200 times the amount of LSD needed to hallucinate. It comes on extremely rapidly, and causes an out-of-body state for approximately 15 minutes. People say they see alien entities, past loved ones, demons, etc...some good, some bad. The release of this chemical during death or close-death allows the mind to deal (or be unaware of) the body dying. The smoking or injection of DMT can cause the infamous "light at the end of the tunnel" due to its immediate and intense effects. People that die and come back claiming to have spoken to a god or loved ones have simply experienced the release of DMT. A psychological study was done on it and is called..."DMT: The Spirit Molecule" by Straussman. Interesting read.

Answer 2

You can really only guauge the feeling before death, considering we are all in various states of living. Natural deaths are influenced by circumstances - for example if you have very strong faith, you may not be afriad of death. Acidental deaths are also governed by circumstances - for example if your car is flying off a cliff you would probably spend your last moments in abject terror, which in itself would probably kill you before you reached the ground. Many suicide attempts, especially the pre-meditated ones, are preceded by hours or even days of euphoria because they are feeling that they can finally get some control back over their lives and because of the release they feel it will bring.

As to Death itself - or after life - that really is the final frontier.

Answer 3

No answers! Maybe this is only my imagination. Someone wants 2 b out of their responbility. Cannot solved their problems & so on & so on...Then lastly this is the decisions they made - DEATH. In their minds, after death, their problems will be solved! They think they will be very comfortable & free. Well, whether its true or nut, we can never get the answers.

Answer 4

I attempted suicide in Oct., 1999. I drank an overdose of an alchohol cocktail. My family came home to find me lying life-less in my own vomit. My BAL was so high that I nearly died. They almost could not flush my veins fast enough or pump my stomach enough.
Meanwhile...I felt absolutely nothing. I was aware of nothing: not the world around me or myself.
I woke up in E.R., not remembering what had happened to me for awhile with some kid screaming his head off in the bed next to mine. I was already getting DT's. I felt the nurse yank my catheder out so hard I bled. I felt the gut-sucking pain of seeing my mother crying when she picked me up, feeling the stabbing pain of guilt and looking over my shoulder shivering at the f***ers in that ER who treated me like a slab of meat.
Yeah, death (well, very close to it in my case): nothing
Life: A plethora of needles piercing every nerve-ending of your entire body from birth until the day you die.
Who knows, if you are thinking of killing yourself the pain you have now might disappear. Then again, it's different for everyone. At least that's what they say.

Answer 5

they say that just before death you feel an overwhelming peace wash over you..which is very comforting if you ask me. We spend our lives just trying to avoid death, but I think when it finally happens, we realize that it is not the end we always feared, just the turning of a page, the release of your soul from it's bodily limits.

Answer 6

Since to know what something feels like you have to experience it and then recall the feeling, I doubt anyone will be able to answer this. My mom died on the operating table, but does not have any "lights at the end of the tunnel" stories to tell.

Answer 7

Death .. is removing the live soul to leave the body dead .. it's like removing a delicate cloth from a thistle filled surface .. it hurts a lot unless the spirit is welocme to heaven and having enough faith .. in GOD ..

Answer 8

I don't know how it feels but my father told me in his case .... because he had a near death experience .... it was peaceful for him. Other people speak of feeling nothing like it or in fact have felt the opposite. Described as untold terror.
It depends on where you stand in your faith.

Answer 9

I really do not think that anyone could answer that. The question sounds like an oxymoron.

One of the things that would happen when you are dead is that you would cease to 'feel' anything.

Answer 10

If death is like sleep, birth is like awaking from it..