How here has experienced death first hand

[Skiguy411]

Watched and listened to my grandfather take his last breath.

Its a sound I will never forget.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Originally posted by: The Battosai

Originally posted by: Neurorelay

Originally posted by: The Battosai
i guess getting a vacation is the closest..

besides my pets passing away

I find dead mice all the time and found one of my puppies dead firsthand, but human death I have never been first hand at the scene. I believe that it is a necessary part of our existence but our culture shields us from this pain unlike the rest of the world.

our culture shields us from alot. it seems like liberty to a degree. there's so much in this world, thats why i'm glad i was able to take philosophy as a minor (would have liked to majored in it but it wasn't offered)

that has to be the most profound thing i have ever heard you say. so to you, i give a

 

[soydios]

My best friend's dad died after a four-year battle with sinus cancer, about a year and a half ago. I was over at his house 10 minutes after it happened. I could not bring myself to walk in the room where he died, I could only stand outside and prevent my friend from collapsing on the floor when he walked out of his dad's room. I remember the smell of death, it permeated that house. It smelled like...pungent moldy dog food. The family moved a few months later, and we're still best friends.

 

[DainBramaged]

I once held a dead woman's jaw shut so that her granddaughter could view her in a more natural state instead of looking semi-freakish. Does that count?

 

[eminemrh25]

umm...

My friend Simon (top222 on this board) called me one day and he was drinking some Vodka. Well, his voice was a little slurred but he has a lisp, so I figured he was just a little drunk. I asked how many drinks he had, his reponse was 2. I started laughing at the fact he was acting drunk over 2 shots....

Well, he kept drinking more and more and more, then he told said "Dude, WTF are you talking about? Shots! Fvck shots! Im taking them by the cup!" Then I told him to quit, and he did. I asked what he was doing. He said he was painting. I figured paint fumes in a small room, while drinkning hard alcohol wasn't the best combination, so I told him to get something to eat and to sit down, but unfortuently, he was painting his new house and there was nothing in the fridge except a bottle of Vodka. Well, I heard him trying to go down the stairs, then a big tumble, then it hung up. I started to wonder if he was alright, so I called his phone about 10 times, all with no answer...

Then his girlfriend got on AIM and was like WTF is up with simon, all he did was call me and say "I don't remember anything, but I love you" and ****** like that, and she was all said and ****** once I told her what happened, and then she got mad at me...

Well, I had to do something that day, but then my phone was ringing, I normally dont answer numbers I don't know, but the number looked strangly familair, so I answered it. It was simons dad, and he is polsih and has an accent, and all I could make out of it was "I came home and simon was lying on the ground, do you know what happened?" so I had to explain to him eveyrthing...

Then I get a call a couple hours later, and im suprised that it is Simon. He woke up. He said what happened as that his brother (If I would've known his bro was home, I would've called him to check up on Simon) found him outside in a puddle of his own puke, half alive. He called his parents, they called the hospital and he was told by the doctors that he was dead for 2 minutes, but they brought him back...

To this day, he can't even smell vodka without gagging...

Edit:
Oh yeah, even now he still calls me a "bad influence", I don't know why, I just make suggestions and he is stupid enough to follow them...

 

[mk]

Originally posted by: middlehead
Held my father's hand while he died.

.

 

[Mucho]

Twice while in the hospital older guys in beds beside mine pass away.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: ruffilb
I gave a old guy buttsecs once to watch him die from the violence of no lube.

:Q

 

[Pacfanweb]

Originally posted by: middlehead
Held my father's hand while he died.

Yep, me too. Watched him take a longer and longer time between breaths, then take his final one.

Did the same thing with my grandfather.

Grandfather was more expected, he had lung cancer for several years, and was in his 80's.

My dad was 51.

 

[RichardE]

Originally posted by: eminemrh25
umm...

My friend Simon (top222 on this board) called me one day and he was drinking some Vodka. Well, his voice was a little slurred but he has a lisp, so I figured he was just a little drunk. I asked how many drinks he had, his reponse was 2. I started laughing at the fact he was acting drunk over 2 shots....

Well, he kept drinking more and more and more, then he told said "Dude, WTF are you talking about? Shots! Fvck shots! Im taking them by the cup!" Then I told him to quit, and he did. I asked what he was doing. He said he was painting. I figured paint fumes in a small room, while drinkning hard alcohol wasn't the best combination, so I told him to get something to eat and to sit down, but unfortuently, he was painting his new house and there was nothing in the fridge except a bottle of Vodka. Well, I heard him trying to go down the stairs, then a big tumble, then it hung up. I started to wonder if he was alright, so I called his phone about 10 times, all with no answer...

Then his girlfriend got on AIM and was like WTF is up with simon, all he did was call me and say "I don't remember anything, but I love you" and ****** like that, and she was all said and ****** once I told her what happened, and then she got mad at me...

Well, I had to do something that day, but then my phone was ringing, I normally dont answer numbers I don't know, but the number looked strangly familair, so I answered it. It was simons dad, and he is polsih and has an accent, and all I could make out of it was "I came home and simon was lying on the ground, do you know what happened?" so I had to explain to him eveyrthing...

Then I get a call a couple hours later, and im suprised that it is Simon. He woke up. He said what happened as that his brother (If I would've known his bro was home, I would've called him to check up on Simon) found him outside in a puddle of his own puke, half alive. He called his parents, they called the hospital and he was told by the doctors that he was dead for 2 minutes, but they brought him back...

To this day, he can't even smell vodka without gagging...

Edit:
Oh yeah, even now he still calls me a "bad influence", I don't know why, I just make suggestions and he is stupid enough to follow them...

Ah alchohol poisonning for the loss

I can't smell/drink whiskey because of an incident when I was 15

 

[purepolly]

"I once held a dead woman's jaw shut so that her granddaughter could view her in a more natural state instead of looking semi-freakish. "

Yeah, post-mortem care isn't all that bad except for tieing the jaw closed and having to deal with the head rolling about while you do it. THAT gets to me. Oddly enough I prefer to help clean a pt up after their passing. Every nurse has their own style and some are a bit rougher doing personal care than others. It's comforting to know that that last truly human ritual is done with care.

 

[Pocahontas]

Went to see my friend BN in the hospital the morning after he took a gun to his head. Unfortunatly he didn't "do the job" by himself his wife and family took him off life support. My fiancee and I went to say our goodbyes. His wife began telling him we were there...BN and I had had a HUGE fight the night before.. he was with us only a few more minutes and then died there with us around him. I don't know how much more diffucult his death would have been if I didn't feel like he was still there for me to say I'm sorry, goodbye and I loved him. It usually doesn't work that way.. RIP BN

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: purepolly
"I once held a dead woman's jaw shut so that her granddaughter could view her in a more natural state instead of looking semi-freakish. "

Yeah, post-mortem care isn't all that bad except for tieing the jaw closed and having to deal with the head rolling about while you do it. THAT gets to me. Oddly enough I prefer to help clean a pt up after their passing. Every nurse has their own style and some are a bit rougher doing personal care than others. It's comforting to know that that last truly human ritual is done with care.

Ditto polly. I know me and you have talked before but I definitely take post mortem care as gently as I can. It is a bit disconcerting but since I try to be so respectful to the deceased it can/is rewarding

 

[Lounatik]

I was 17 and coming home from an Ozzy Osbourne concert (24 years ago! ) and met a buddy of mine at a restaurant he was working in and followed him back to his house. He gets a good head start on me out of the restaurant and goes around a curve and I hear a huge bang. I'm like "Oh crap" . So I get around the curve and see that it was not him, but a small Toyota Corona or some small Toyo and it was hit head on by a Delta 88. Stupid guy was drunk and crossed the median and hit the Toyota. Anyway, I am the first one on the scene and this guy jumps out of the car bleeding and screaming gibberish and his forehead is flapping down around his eyes. He takes off in shock running down the middle of the road. I then got in the car, which was burning, and see a girl about 20 or so in the rear passenger seat with her neck at an impossible angle. She was driving and the impact actually broke and bent her seat so violently that she wound up on the other side of the car. So here I am struggling to get her out of the friggin car and I cannot move her and by now people had started to gather and I heard someone tell me to get out of the car, its on fire, blah blah. After a few minutes of me pleading with someone to help, the fire department arrived and the EMT reached into the window and felt for a pulse and told me she was dead. So now I am in shock and I start to scream at the EMT to get her the f&*K out of the car! Again he tells me to leave her. Finally a friend of mine drags me away and I about passed out in the middle of the road.

The freakiest thing about it was her warmth. She was still warm and was still breathing not 5 seconds before I got there. An now here I sit 24 years later and I still get misty eyed and remember it like it happened an hour ago.


Peace


Lounatik

 

[Baked]

Got ran over by a car once. Went into coma for a week. I see no light at the end of the tunnel, no out of body experience, no check-in at heaven or hell. There's no life after death. When you die, it's lights out, forever.

 

[skyking]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA

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

Don't they judge death by brain activity?

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.

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.

sounds a lot like the Mammalian Diving Reflex:

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

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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drowning

My brother had been down in a cold lake for 40 minutes before the fire department found him, and they did nothing. My family works in the medical profession, and to this day we feel an attempt shoud have been made.

 

[stimpyman77]

I held and watched my 3 year old daughter as she took he last breath. She battled cancer for 7 months. I will never forget the heartbreak I felt at that moment. Never felt so powerless in my life, I would have given my soul to stop it. It is a vision that will be with me forever. I was there to see here come into the world and take her first breath and there to see her leave it and take her last. R.I.P my little princess.. love Dad...

 

[Journer]

i watched my best bud die of cancer....watched hi litterally die in intensive care.....sucked balls