I doubt whether many of us have 'died', & lived to tell the tale but when we go to sleep & drift off into oblivion, we are aware of nothing going on around us until the moment we wake up again. So this must be like being dead in a way ........... any comments or info?????
2007-01-01 09:00:54 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Another definition of dying is Going To Sleep. The difference is we awake from our slumbers, we dont wake up from the sleep of death.
2007-01-01 09:04:25 · answer #1 · answered by breedgemh_101 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you were dead, you would not have any vitals, heart beat, respirations etc.
I have seen many people die being a nurse. Its not really easy leaving this world. The first sign of death is "death rattle" which is a labored breathing. When that ceases usually there is one last big breathe and that is it.
My mother-in-law even told my daughter that she "saw the light".And we all witnessed her reaching. I have read in books on Life after Death, that this reaching is someone we see from before that we were close to on Earth and has already passed and they are coming to help us pass over to the next world.
If we have lived a good life without any bad habits we will stay in the heavens, if we haven't we come back until we get things right.That the world is a learning place.
But yes we just drift off. I imagine we do see what is happening here on Earth until we go for the light.
Just watch Ghost Whisperer.
2007-01-01 09:21:18 · answer #2 · answered by Momwithaheart 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure that we are unaware of things going on around us when we are asleep. We still hear and are woken up by noise. We dream when we are asleep. If our unconscious comes to the fore when we are asleep because there are no restrictions from the conscious mind and our dreams are a way for the unconscious to bring troubling issues to our conscious minds, then maybe sleep is a bit like being dead in the religious sense. Perhaps it is this part of us that is the 'soul' and carries on after death. Who knows????!!!
2007-01-01 09:51:04 · answer #3 · answered by kelebek 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats a strange way to think, but we wake up so its not really the same at all, the feelings of death for other people are not there when we wake, its a very weird thought actually so im saying no more lol
2007-01-01 09:11:45 · answer #4 · answered by button moon 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Death is permanent separation of soul and body. Body soon decomposes, but soul, being energy, exists forever. In sleep, soul is with the body, only dormant. Death is the doror , finaly opens to Heaven or to Hell, depending whether we are saved or condemned. One who find Jesus finds forgiveness of sins, hope of Heaven, and eternal life.
2007-01-01 10:04:22 · answer #5 · answered by tmthyh 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, i don't think you can liken the two. Being dead, i imagine, is the same as what it is like before you are born. Difficult to describe, isnt it?
2007-01-01 09:07:10 · answer #6 · answered by Caroline 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Doubt it. Our brains are active during sleep.
Not so much with death.
2007-01-01 09:03:22 · answer #7 · answered by Pangolin 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
i have often thought that. except you wouldnt wake up again.
2007-01-01 09:09:23 · answer #8 · answered by grumpcookie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, more like being in a coma
2007-01-01 09:31:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i agree, never really thought about it like that though
2007-01-01 09:03:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋