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Author Topic: What does death feel like?  (Read 8076 times)

x2yzh9

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What does death feel like?
« on: October 13, 2010, 02:27:51 am »

What it says on the tin, I guess. A lot of accounts from people who were brought back to life by shock say it's something like peaceful and tranquil, once the initial moment of pain passes. It's.. Weird. I've been in contact with someone when they've died, and I can say it sort of feels like you can feel their soul passing from their body.

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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #1 on: October 13, 2010, 02:30:54 am »

Like falling asleep or unconscious. then nothing, in the same sense that there was nothing before you were born.
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #2 on: October 13, 2010, 02:32:35 am »

Death feels a bit offended you guys are all talking about him without even shaking his hand.

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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #3 on: October 13, 2010, 02:34:06 am »

As many people know, I died on one occassion. When I died, I found myself in a place filled with many clouds, but I myself upon a long stone road that weaved through them.
The road was indeed very long, and full of perils, but eventually I made it to the end and trained with a martial arts master on his secret planet until I was strong enough to return and save my friends from some dangerous aliens.
Later, they would wish me back to life using a magic dragon.
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #4 on: October 13, 2010, 02:35:25 am »

Nobody can answer you. We can get 'what's it feel like to almost die', fine, but we have no idea if that's the same as actually dying. Personally, I believe something similar to nbonaparte: Death involves the death of the brain, which means we can't process anything and thus, nothingness.

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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #5 on: October 13, 2010, 02:47:01 am »

I think I can pretty categorically say that Captain is wrong on this one. I myself was killed in Vietnam while trying to strike down my closest friend who had gone mad and starting killing civilians. I was eventually revived alongside him as part of a crack cyborg counter-terrorist squad, and mission by mission, we both regained our memories. Fortunately, through the love of a plucky investigative journalist and a muscle-enhancing serum, I was able to defeat him.

I still have a problem with needing to be constantly cooled, though.
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #6 on: October 13, 2010, 02:48:55 am »

I'm thinking it would be like being in a coma without the waking up part.
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #7 on: October 13, 2010, 04:08:28 am »

 Death doesn't feel like anything.Dying hurts,but after that,dead is gone.
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #8 on: October 13, 2010, 05:00:27 am »

I don't think anyone here can give you a definitive answer, but we certainly can help you experience it  ;)
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #9 on: October 13, 2010, 07:59:45 am »

You see, the problem with people experiencing death is that if they're dead, they can't tell you about it. If they're revived, their brain could just make up some crackpot story about what happened while they were gone.
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #10 on: October 13, 2010, 09:59:13 am »

You see, the problem with people experiencing death is that if they're dead, they can't tell you about it. If they're revived, their brain could just make up some crackpot story about what happened while they were gone.

This, pretty much.

Any experiences people tell you are a result of all the chemicals being released from a dying brain.

They did not experience death, they experienced dying. Big difference.
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #11 on: October 13, 2010, 10:51:57 am »

It feels like a warm sunday afternoon.
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #12 on: October 13, 2010, 11:12:23 am »

It feelings really cold and shameing. I almost died from a heart attack, well technicly I was 'dead' for 12 seconds. All I remember is this fellow in a white robe with two black blurs behind him giveing me a lecture.
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #13 on: October 13, 2010, 11:25:28 am »

The process of dying is going to feel different from one person to another.

Actually being dead, though, is the same for everyone.  We all know exactly what that's like, some people just don't want to admit it.  We've all been non-existent before.  And we'll be non-existent again.
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Re: What does death feel like?
« Reply #14 on: October 13, 2010, 12:02:40 pm »

well, there are hypothesis like quantum immortality...
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