Ever had a death/near death experience? What did you see? What did it feel like? How does it feel to die?

Answer 1

when i was in Iraq we were in the middle of a "shoot out". i just remember hearing bullets and people screaming. you remember the part on "Saving Private Ryan" at the beginning when everything was going in slow motion. that's exactly how it is. an IUD went off and some of the shrapnel hit my back. it felt like someone put a sledge hammer to my back. i can just remember screaming out for God. within seconds of me saying the name of God..everything grew silent. the infantry unit i was with ended up killing the snipers. no one in my convoy was seriously hurt. if it weren't for God's protection...i know for a fact that me and many more troops would have been dead.

Answer 2

I died for a little while once, but luckily got rescucitated. However, I have no memory of this because I was a baby. If near-death experiences were true, and you got to see a flash of heaven or something....wouldn't that make an impression on you, even if you were very young? I don't know. But I have never been spiritual in the least.

Answer 3

A few years ago, I was choking on a large cocktail onion. No-one else was in the hosue, but my parents were over from England. couldn't get it to come back up, even trying to induce vomitting & I couldn't swallow it.

I had time to think that my parents would come back from their day trip & find me dead on the floor. As I leant over the sink, my guts gave an involuntary spasm & the onion came out & landed in the sink.

The experience was scary. But I had time for thinking pointless thoughts. I did think about having not made a will, how maybe I should lie on the couch to die. Then when the onion came out......relief.

Answer 4

I was in child birth, my cervix wasn't opening because it was scared shut from cervical cancer removal, my body kept producing harder and harder contractions to open my cervix but it wasn't working, this went on for 17 hours, finally my body just gave out.

I remember everything sort of blurring out, just fading away. As I rose I noticed that there was no more pain and I was relieved. I didn't see a tunnel but I did see this white mist consume me, as I rose further up I was tranquil and happy.

Suddenly I was yanked back and when I opened my eyes I had an oxygen mask on and all sorts of wires and monitors hooked up to me and my baby was in fetal distress. They said I was gone for almost five minutes.

The contractions came back, they finally realized what was wrong and broke open the scar tissue, It didn't hurt to die, it hurt to live through that. Dying felt very peaceful and warm.

Answer 5

Yes, skateboarding accident, almost gone, saw nothing.

Near death experiences are just the last ditch efforts of a brain going into shock, they can actually be reproduced with certain drugs(LSD is a big one)/chemicals that induce such a chemical reaction in the brain that happens when a person goes through these experiences. they are not unique to any religion/god, and as I said are easily explained.

Answer 6

I did and it was horrible, I was in a place where there was no light and there was no way out, it was forever...while I was here I thought I was alright and didn't know that the light I was in wouldn't last~took it all for granted..
I am now saved and know that I won't be separated from God anymore~
life is but a vapor~it goes by quickly

Answer 7

I was drowned in the pool once. Lucky for me the life guard spotted me and pulled me out of the water. I came out of my unconsciousness after she did a mouth to mouth resuscitation. It might sounded traumatic but it wasn't. I felt like I was just waking up from my sleep. No pain at all.

Answer 8

I have died. Not once … probably about seven times actually (as a child in hospital for nine years). My life expectancy seemed fixed on fourteen years maximum and the doctors felt awfully confident about that. Each time I slipped away the doctors brought me back. Got to a point, where, after the last occasion, I decided that I would have to do something about grabbing a toe-hold on life because not even death wanted me. Now I will turn 55 next month so I must have done something right (grins).

Do you know what it seems like to die, when all the pain goes away and you stand on the edge of some mind-bending geometry that seems as natural as apple pie on a Sunday afternoon?

Today, all these years later, the images still stay fresh in my mind. I wonder if now, with all the elegance of language at my disposal, I might find the words to share something of this experience, she muses.

It all began ... says she, hoping you might linger a moment over the word "began" ... with a pinprick of light on a wall, in my mind, as my eyes closed to some reality of always painfully struggling to breathe. The pinprick of light slowly and deliberately grew until a new reality showed itself. The pinprick had become a tunnel, a cone leading somewhere and I stood on the edge.

Behind me …the world of hospital, pain and monotony faded in swirling blanketing fog like a bad dream. Before me … colours and dimensions unimagined and inviting beckoned with some new familiarity and a dark ribbon of light that warped it way through this coned entrance.

I would step onto this central dark ribbon path and let it take me where I should go. I start to move, drift. I see colours of light swirling away into some dimensional distance. Strange as this might seem, a few NASA Hubble pictures of nebulae, these days, come closest to representing what I sensed then, so many years ago.

I start to move, drift. Suddenly, into this extraordinary geometry, a figure of a man appears blocking my way. An anachronism from the memory of a child’s world, you wonder? I do not know save that this most beautiful personage did not seem out of place in this multi-dimensional sphere.

“Go back child” says the white robed man, “Go back.”

I do not want to go back.

“Go back” he whispers gently, “Time does not call you to this now.”

Back, in slow motion returns the man image. Back, in slow motion fades the swirling colours. Back, in slow motion retreats the ribbon of light. Back, in slow motion bleeds the cone. Back, in slow motion until all that I have left equates to a pinprick on some wall in my mind.

I explode into a world of pain and sharp yellow lights with grey edges. Someone gently strokes my head … distortion through an oxygen mask. Vague chattering as I get wheeled back to my bed. Efficient white cuffed hands tuck me in firmly and walk away. Alone in the dark I can see moonlight through a window slit. Can I find the tunnel again? I feel so lost and abandoned and all of seven years old and it hurts to breathe. I start to cry very softly, not wanting some crisp starched nurse to arrive with stop watch and probing hands. Then suddenly, I did not feel so alone. Two wraith-like figures of moonlight mist stood at the end of my bed with their wings loosely folded behind them. The child slept in the company of angels and no one ever knew.

Answer 9

The pain stops and you slip into oblivion. Like falling asleep but more peaceful, until some idiot starts pumping your chest and you feel the pain all over again.

Answer 10

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