Is it true that a person has a flashback of their entire life , right before death ?

Answer 1

My father died twice and was brought back. He said he did not see anything. He was a strict Catholic at the time and continues to believe in the Catholic faith, but is open to other beliefs as well.

Answer 2

Not always, but often...people who are on their death bed will sort of revert back to a time in their past and speak as if they're still living in it.

When my grandfather was dying, he said things like "Where is Sally? We have to board the plane now or we'll lose our runway."

He'd look at the clock as if he really were on a time schedule, because he was re-living his younger days when he WAS a pilot. He was in full control of his faculties until this point so it wasn't senility or alzheimers. This just happened the day before he passed. Now, I don't know if that could be considered a flashback, OR if maybe your mind takes you to a happier time toward the end, but he really thought he was on that flight schedule.

Answer 3

I remember when I was drugged and almost overdosed on something I remembered every person I promised something to and never did it.. I remembered times I was ungreatful and times I decieved people and I remembered people I loved and I kept trying to figure out what my purpose in life was and if my life was over at this point then why couldn't I figure out what my purpose was and it was just really scary because I was wondering why I was remembering all of these things and everything around me was like an outter body experience and I could see myself in the room I was in and there was this peircing high pitched sound and that's all I could hear.. no voices.. no noises.. nothing.. and at one point I saw flames and it was horrific. I was told I was pretty much a goner if the ambulance didn't come when they did. So, I think the answer is yes. Although, I am still alive?

Answer 4

That's a good question, and I've wondered about that myself. I think it must be only an expression added to emphasize how serious a situation really was. Logically, how could your life flash before your eyes? It would have to be a movie length vision to even capture some of the points in a person's life. And these life flashes are only supposed to be an instant. That's my take on it, and I haven't helped you much, have I?

Answer 5

NOPE.

I have been clinically dead twice. Once by drowning, and once in a motorcycle wreck, and neither time did I see my life flash before my eyes.

In the bike wreck, things seemed to slow down into slow-mo, but I was conscious right up to the point my head impacted that boulder sticking up out of the ground. it was such a hard impact that it split the helmet from the nape of the neck, clear over the top of the helmet to the face shield. I was pronounced D.O.A at the hospital. My brain activity had ceased. They were filling out my death certificate 17 minutes later whent he nurse panicked. She looked over and saw the sheet moving. I was breathing. No one knows why. Comatose 2 1/2 months, with shattered ankles and knees, a separated hip, 3 broke ribs, a separated shoulder, and a broken collarbone. Throughout all that, it was like I was awake, flying through the air upside down at night, then I woke up in a hospital bed in the middle of the day, with tubes coming out of my everywhere.

I healed, and a year and a half later, I was trying to learn to Kayak, and the instructor neglected to teach me to do a "wet exit" before trying to teach me to roll the kayak over. I got rolled upside down and couldn't get it rolled back upright. I did do the grey-out thing where I had my vision tunnel out, but it was really similar to the effect you get in an oxygen deprivation tank.

But in neither case, did I have the whole-life flashback...

Hope this helps...

Answer 6

If it were possible to ask those jumpers from the WTC towers on 9/11, many of them probably would say yes. Because there have been many cases where people who survived what they thought would be a certain-death event which took a few seconds to transpire, reported such lifelong reviews flashing through their minds.

Answer 7

My brother had a friend who had a near death experience (he "drowned" but was revived after several minutes of unconsciousness, not breathing and no heartbeat) He didn't see his life pass by, but he said he saw his entire family standing before him even though he was "dead" and none of them were there at the time.

Answer 8

I'm sure something happens. My father died 3 days ago. He was almost 88. He had Alzheimer for more than 10 years. Since a long time, he didn't recognize his parents (wife - sons etc.) neither talk with coherence. Two days before his death, he was unconscious. The day before - and thanks God - we were almost all of his family there, he recovered lucidity. He called some of us by our names, he thanked the nurse when she gave him ice cream, he ate it with pleasure, he even lough. The next day he died.

Answer 9

Sounds unlikely. Having been in a number of situations where death was a likely outcome, I've never experienced it.

CD

Answer 10

I did not but thats because i got a $hit memory.
but apparently yes .
but its just your brain discharging info its one of the last organs to go. When the rest of the body has shut down
according to Egyptian belief you have to live 1/3 of your life backwards so the heart can be measured against your deeds.
so why not?
ill go with yes