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How here has experienced death first hand

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A couple of times, people died while I tried to help. The worst was my dad.
It did a couple of things to me. It removed the last vestiges of "invincible youth", or any hint of that bullcrap. It also made it easier to accept the inevitable, after the initial shock of it wore off.
 
Originally posted by: Wozster
I died once. Not kidding.

Drowned in a semi-frozen lake; no breathing, heart beat, or pulse.
The hospital was able to revive me thanks to Hypothermia
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In a case like that we say in the hospital you arent dead til you are 98.6F degrees.

That being said. I work at an inner city trauma hospital. Need a I say much more?

And for the record performing post mortem care is NOT fun whatsoever.

In fact I helped with it again just last week.

 
I watched my father get some incorrect blood after a routine surgery and he was a few minutes from being removed from all post-op assistance until the doctor decided to try something new as a last resort.

He was actually flow to U Michigan, put on a heart/lung bypass machine (ECMO) for about 10 days with little chance of survival but now is back to a normal life. He has some wild stories from those days.
 
I got hit by a pickup truck while riding my bike when I was 12 years old. He swurved off the road.

My heart and breathing completely stopped 3 times in the ambulance. The third time they gave up and pretty much said I was gone for good... Then I vomited which got my heart beating again. ..crazy. Was in a coma for 2 weeks.

I lost all memory of the incident. But several months later I had a dream of it happening.. And when all went black in the ambulance, I was hovering over myself, looking at myself.. then I woke up.

Can't say if it really happened.. but that's what I dreamed.
 
I used to be a volunteer on the local fire department. There would be car accidents where people would be dead. Every once in a while it would be grousome. After a couple of them I quit. I didn't want to be around when my mother and father passed. I probably could have been, but chose not to. I am sensative to stuff like that. It is something that we all have to face. I have thought about it right much in the past few years.
 
the closest thing for me would probably be seeing a friend one day and then finding out he shot himself that night. Not really a first hand experience though.

my dad laid in bed with my grandfather as he passed away from cancer.
 
The worse was seeing my Dad go. He had hepatitis C which caused a lot of implications throughout his body. One day he started vomitting blood... litters even... I took him to the hospital and it was the worse sight that I've ever seen in my life. He didn't pass until 3 days after, but it was difficult as hell. So sad. Made me realize that life is short and very fragile. Enjoy yourself. Hell, I had a bout with cancer and am still investigating it with the Doctor to see if I'm in the clear. So you see, I'm okay most of the time because I supress the fears. Man it's scary.
 
i saw a man get hit by a car, go flying over the roof, and land behind the car. He didn't make it. I was 3-4 cars back.
 
Helped pull a body out of a river when I was 17. Kinda freaky.
Running Class III rapids in an inner tube with no life jacket while drunk off your ass is a Bad Idea.
 
I rode a medic unit for 3 years, so yeah. So far in the hospital, I've only been around one of my patients who has died.
 
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: Wozster
I died once. Not kidding.

Drowned in a semi-frozen lake; no breathing, heart beat, or pulse.
The hospital was able to revive me thanks to Hypothermia
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Don't they judge death by brain activity?
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from that wiki article

An important tenet of treatment is that a person is not dead until they are warm and dead - remarkable stories of recovery after prolonged cardiac arrest have been reported in patients with hypothermia. This is presumably because the low temperature prevents some of the cellular damage that occurs when blood flow and oxygen are lost for an extended period of time.
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They'll do that now on some/all open heart patients, they cool the body rapidly DOWN to slow metabolism and preserve brain function and other critical organ functions while the heart-lung machine does its thing.
 
I was visiting my grandfather in the hospital after he'd had a stroke. He was in the ER in an area where the patiens are seperated by curtains alone. In the area next o his a boy that my mom knew died after being shot. I saw his blood on the floor as well as rags covered in his blood.

That was close enough for me!


: ) Amanda
 
I landed head first onto some sand from about 15 feet up... blacked out for 5 minutes and broke some ribs. Someone did CPR on me I guess....
 
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: Wozster
I died once. Not kidding.

Drowned in a semi-frozen lake; no breathing, heart beat, or pulse.
The hospital was able to revive me thanks to Hypothermia
Click to expand...

Don't they judge death by brain activity?
Click to expand...

from that wiki article

An important tenet of treatment is that a person is not dead until they are warm and dead - remarkable stories of recovery after prolonged cardiac arrest have been reported in patients with hypothermia. This is presumably because the low temperature prevents some of the cellular damage that occurs when blood flow and oxygen are lost for an extended period of time.
Click to expand...

They'll do that now on some/all open heart patients, they cool the body rapidly DOWN to slow metabolism and preserve brain function and other critical organ functions while the heart-lung machine does its thing.
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sounds a lot like the Mammalian Diving Reflex:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex
 
Originally posted by: Iron Woode
Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Originally posted by: jagec
Originally posted by: Wozster
I died once. Not kidding.

Drowned in a semi-frozen lake; no breathing, heart beat, or pulse.
The hospital was able to revive me thanks to Hypothermia
Click to expand...

Don't they judge death by brain activity?
Click to expand...

from that wiki article

An important tenet of treatment is that a person is not dead until they are warm and dead - remarkable stories of recovery after prolonged cardiac arrest have been reported in patients with hypothermia. This is presumably because the low temperature prevents some of the cellular damage that occurs when blood flow and oxygen are lost for an extended period of time.
Click to expand...

They'll do that now on some/all open heart patients, they cool the body rapidly DOWN to slow metabolism and preserve brain function and other critical organ functions while the heart-lung machine does its thing.
Click to expand...
sounds a lot like the Mammalian Diving Reflex:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex
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Correct

Drowning victims should be treated even if they have been submerged for a long time. The rule "no patient should be pronounced dead until warm and dead" applies. Children in particular have a good chance of survival in water up to 3 minutes, or 10 minutes in cold water (10 to 15 °C or 50 to 60 °F). Submersion in cold water can slow the metabolism drastically. There are rare but documented cases of survivable submersion for extreme lengths of time. In one case a child survived drowning after being submerged in cold water for 70 minutes. In another, an 18 year old man survived 38 minutes under water. This is known as cold water drowning.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning
 
Well my nearest point to getting killed was actually getting hit by a car while crossing the road.
This lady was having 4 monkeys.. I mean kids jumping in the car and she just wack through the road as I was crossing... claims that she didn't see me on the road. LOL.. wtf

in any case, that wasn't the most scary part coz, after she knock me down, I flew to the opposite side of the road and there was another on coming car, heads on to me. he made an emergency drift to avoid my head and almost went over my right leg, fortunately I got up quickly to avoid more physical abuse on my body.

Had a torn shirt, back pain and a wasted lunch. But lived till today without any internal injuries
 
My grandfather was in total organ failure on a heart/lung machine after having been in a medically induced coma-like state for a week in hopes of recovery. At that point, my family made the decision to let him pass peacefully, since there was no chance of recovery, let alone a meaningful one. We all stood around him and held him, 3 of his 4 children, his wife, and only grandson each laid our hands on him as the devices were powered down. Very powerful, very peaceful.
 
When I was 11, I was living in Korea. One day I was playing with my friends outside and heard someone shouting. I looked back and this lady was ran over by a truck carrying tons of construction bricks.
Apparently driver forgot to properly park the vehicle and it rolled back 20m before hitting her. We ran to help her but found out that her head was open and was killed instantly.

I am now 28 and I can still visualize the accident just as if it happened yesterday. Really changed my life and still haunts me time to time.
 
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