Obviously, this is a hard one to answer, but, the mechanism of dying is in all of us. I think, that no matter what you die of, even though you may feel pain at first, your brain creates an altered, almost 'mind tripping' state of conciousness to make the transition so we dont know it's even happening. Or this could just be an adrenaline rush - What do you's think??
2006-10-25 11:34:32 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
Can't be too bad, nobody has ever complained yet.
2006-10-25 11:37:10 · answer #1 · answered by Polo 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Obviously, this is a hard one to answer, but, the mechanism of dying is in all of us. I think, that no matter what you die of, even though you may feel pain at first, your brain creates an altered, almost 'mind tripping' state of conciousness to make the transition so we dont know it's even happening. Or this could just be an adrenaline rush - What do you's think??
2006-10-25 18:42:01 · answer #2 · answered by Random_2k7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have always thought i never had any fear of dying That all changed about 7 years ago after a near fatal incident with a knife first the shock then the rapid breath which causes a light head adrenaline is kicking in so clotting wont happen..as for going to a happy place i just new at that moment in time i wanted to live.. i saw no tunnel or light your brain is trying to do its job in this situation by shutting down that's just my experience of it Death must be a cool place though when you visit it you never return :)
2006-10-25 18:56:22 · answer #3 · answered by GHO$T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that the entire experience would be dependant on the life you have led. Not in any sort of heaven and hell sort of way but whether you have regrets or not. If you have lived a full life and experienced lots then your final moments should be a haze of review over those finer moments and a feeling of completeness.
However if you have not lived a fullfilling life then i imagine that your final moments would be filled with regret and a foreboding hesitancy to have it all end making it a far more painfull and distressing experience
I am probably way out but at least that is my opinion
take care
steve
2006-10-25 20:27:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there is a feeling of weightlessness when death is near. Our friend was dying of cancer and in the last week he smelt like death. That may sound bizarre but I think individuals know when they are going to die - and try to hold to life for as long as possible. Really the only people that hurt when someone dies are the peole left behind.
My dad nearly died having a heart attack - and he once told me that consciously you feel you are alive - but half way in between. he could see the doctors working on him from above and something snapped him back to reality and from near death. So I think we choose our time, and that is why everything goes slowly. It does sound a little odd..
2006-10-26 00:14:18 · answer #5 · answered by Danielle P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I buried a family cat baby this week, when we got him he'd been rescued from being tied up in a sheet of tarpalin with what looked like a dead sibbling.
He used to shut his eyes tight and just splay himself if you walked into a room with an umbrella or a rolled up newspaper - that was 18 years ago.
By the time I had to make the decision to have him put down he was blind, through age, and would just purr at the sound of my voice and happily follow me around the house tapping at my knee to get on my lap for a cuddle. The decision to have him 'put to sleep' broke my heart, but his kidneys had packed up and he was in obviously pain. So in answer to you're question (yes there is one) our bodies shut down for a reason, and I like to think that the pain in which we were enduring during our physical living is not replicated in that of our dying process or afterlife soul.
2006-10-25 19:03:42 · answer #6 · answered by bengimog 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's not an adrenaline rush that's for sure - most of the time a peace comes over and they are usually on another level of consciousness. Nature prepares you for it. Entering the world is traumatic, leaving it is not. (I'm excluding violent deaths here, these would not be classed as natural, yet even then, chemicals released are fast-tracked to produce a sense of 'otherness' or not happening to you, to lessen that trauma).
My father knew he was dying yet it still surprised him, but though he let us know, it was an effort to haul himself back to the level of consciousness that we were on to be understood and to say he was letting go. My darling sister did not know till the last moment when she opened her eyes and took us all in before closing them again for good. In both cases it was peaceful whether they wanted to go or not.
2006-10-25 18:48:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Certainly chemicals released cause feelings not normally felt, i dont think for a minute death is pain full at the point of death, certainly the lead up to it pending your illness is pain full! My Mr's nearly drowned as a youngster she got to a bliss full state where she could'nt careless if she had of died, which indicates to me she really had been close to death? She panics now of water and pulls up a cushion to her face during drowning scenes within a movie. I left my body once years ago, i saw myself in bed i really did feel i was out of my own body, but i will never know if that was a near death thing as i wasn't particularly ill at the time, did freak me out though!!!
2006-10-25 19:19:42 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends on how you die most of all... than everything else after that is business as usual. If you die from drowning, burning, being shot, freezing, etc. than I'm sure it wouldn't feel that great. BUT, if you die in your sleep or "under" as the doctors say during a operation than I guess it should be peaceful. My dad died in his sleep, that would be the way to go... of course as long as you don't dream it happening than actually die... that would suck I guess.
2006-10-25 18:47:56 · answer #9 · answered by rjakjr 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i felt like this when my mental health illness got soooooooo b ad, i was in hospital for a few months but its like a near death experience and u cant think straight and its all blank in head and u feel weird and loose in ur body and weak and helpless and ur heart goes thump thump and beats faster than ever and u get sweaty and scared and confused as to whats hgappening coz its never happened before and u think ur dying and u want sum1 there coz ur scared ur dying and to hold ur hand and say everything going to be okay and u want comforting and cuddled and looked after and oh God! its scary. sorry for the fore-ever ands and ands but tahst how bad it is. well, tahts wot i experienced few yrs ago.
2006-10-25 19:02:12 · answer #10 · answered by allgiggles1984 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've got as close as you possibly can with my bp at 80/20 with a 450 gram blood clot and a blood count of 5.5.
I knew nothing and I saw nothing-I had 5 hours of surgery
There is just haze.
2006-10-25 18:41:13 · answer #11 · answered by Elle J Morgan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋