Wednesday, April 27, 2011
What Does Death Feel Like?
I probably asked a lot of people this already, but WHAT DOES DEATH FEEL LIKE? People always say, "Nothing". Then, what does feeling nothing feel like? I can't imagine feeling "nothing". What does "Nothing" feel like?
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I know a guy who died twice. He says it feels like you got the wind knocked out of you. Like you got sucker-punched or something
ReplyDeletePsalm told me this story once, about her aunt. Her aunt was about to die, and she died, but they were able to bring her back to life. The aunt begged for them to let her go back to death though, she said it was beautiful. I've heard many stories like this.
ReplyDeleteIs that really what death is, or is the "beautiful death" just a hallucination?
We won't know until we die, and when we die we won't be able to tell anybody. And Psalm told me a story about when her aunt died they were able to bring her back to life. She said it felt one way (I forgot how), but it probably feels different to everybody.
ReplyDeleteI suppose you can never know if their memories simply disappear.
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ReplyDeleteIt really depends what you mean by death.
ReplyDeleteThe definition Phia, Lily, and Sophie are using is where the body isn't breathing and the person shows low or no signs of life, but can be brought back to life through CPR or a shock to the heart, then he or she was technically dead, but wasn't in the farthest depths of death where one is unrevivable.
If we use the definition that I mentioned, then we could say that many people have, in fact, experienced death. But no one has actually been able to fall into a state where he or she is unrevivable and then come back to tell us what it was like.
I agree with Aragorn. I think the only way we can have a real discussion about this is if we define death.
ReplyDeleteWell I think what Kent meant, although I can't speak for him, is What does it feel like when your physical being stops working. When this happens your senses stop working so in theory you would feel nothing, hear nothing, see nothing. You are completely disconnected from the world around you, but what does it feel like to not feel anything?
ReplyDeleteI think that nothing feels like just that- nothing. Because if you're not feeling anything, it's impossible to feel the "feeling" of nothing- therefore it doesn't feel like anything. It's sort of a paradox.
ReplyDeleteI heard that your in a state of Limbo. Limbo: a state of oblivion.
ReplyDeleteNope. Limbo is equivalent to a coma, which is a state between death and reality. Occasionally you have dreams, but other than that you have no connection with reality.
ReplyDeleteThen again, think about it: has anyone ever had what I call a dreamless sleep, where you close your eyes one night, and almost as if you had blinked, your mind believes that seven hours elapsed in less than a second, and you really had no idea that in that "blink" it became morning again? It would probably be the same as being unconscious, or passing out, or even a coma. I don't believe you stand in nothing for as long as you're out, I think that time just seems to pass in a second, but the outside world has changed while you were out.
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