Does dying feel like youre just going to sleep?

Do you think it felt like going to sleep to this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjQ9y74209c

I was driving my four year old home from preschool a few days after going to her great grandmother's funeral.

She asked me if it hurts when you die.

I told her it would depend on how you die.

She asked if you were really old and you died in your sleep, would it hurt. I told her No, that does t hurt.

She was quiet for about a minute and then asked me, "What if you die in a knife fight?"

Children are wise wrote:

I was driving my four year old home from preschool a few days after going to her great grandmother's funeral.

She asked me if it hurts when you die.

I told her it would depend on how you die.

She asked if you were really old and you died in your sleep, would it hurt. I told her No, that does t hurt.

She was quiet for about a minute and then asked me, "What if you die in a knife fight?"

Go to Emerg in Toronto for an opinion on that.

I want to die in my sleep peacefully like my grandfather.

Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

I have no experience dying, so I really can't tell you.

I'm pretty sure no one else has experience dying either, so this is like trying to figure out how many angels are dancing on a needle.

Pretty sure it stops hurting when you are dead. Probably even a little before.

Sean'OPublic wrote:

Pretty sure it stops hurting when you are dead. Probably even a little before.

Somehow I am reminded of the bumper sticker I saw years ago that read: I know Hell is supposed to be really hot, but is it humid?

i recently was in the room when my FIL passed. he had been suffering for a long time. he was still suffering when he passed. it sure was NOT like falling asleep.

Sure, some dying people slip into unconsciousness and never wake up. Nice way to go. Hope the corona virus does that to me, so I don't have to feel suffocation and choking for the last hours.

This reminds me of a question I had with a coworker. She was a passenger in a car careening over a cliff at high speed. Do you pass out, in fear? I asked her. She said, "no, you scream and freak out all the way until you hit something hard enough!"

Yes, and remember that next time you go to bed! Be careful, you might not just be going to sleep, you might actually be dying.

Jack Handy quote wrote:

I want to die in my sleep peacefully like my grandfather.

Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

I love Jack Handy. Thank you for this! :)

Rupp fan wrote:

Jack Handy quote wrote:

I want to die in my sleep peacefully like my grandfather.

Not screaming in terror like his passengers.

I love Jack Handy. Thank you for this! :)

I love it, I never heard this one.

It's like the dreamless sleep of the induction of anesthesia

Not Top 10

Burning alive

Again, not in my top 10 ways to finish up

DudeBroMan

I'm pretty sure no one else has experience dying.

FALSE. Many people die (clinically) and are brought back to life. Me being one in a horrific motorcycle accident 18 years ago. Thank god for modern medicine.

Many years ago I was on holiday on the coast enjoying a meal in a fish restaurant. I'm not sure exactly what I ate that night, although perhaps it was Red Snapper because I like Red Snapper and have certainly had it before at the same restaurant. I also ate a crab dish for my starter.

Some time later I started feeling a bit ill so went home. Well, I say home, but I meant my vacation apartment. You know what I mean...

Anyway, my heart started feeling very bad. Erratically, thumping heavily in my chest. Was very worrying. Next morning I got an ECG test done. Nothing shows up.

So we went home. Problem flares up again on the drive home. I seriously think my number's up. Same heart issues, heavy sweating. I thought I'd surely been the victim of some fish poisoning!

Next day, same think, so the missus drives me to A&E. But here's the thing - on the way there, as the pain came and went in ever stronger waves, I started to lose my vision and hearing. Blackness just came in from the sides until nothing was left. And sounds just seemed to become washier and washier, getting ever fainter. This is it I thought. But the funny thing was that I was eerily calm about it. It was like once's senses being slowly removed took away the fear.

Anyway, turns out I didn't die that day. However, I've never feared death since. I imagine that passing on in old age must be a lot like this. Almost like woozily falling asleep on the sofa watching some film late at night.

I've had a similar experience. When I had surgery on my knee, after I came around I was laying in bed and my mum was sitting across the room, it was about an hour after the surgery I think. I had been speaking and fine, then all of a sudden I couldn't move - I couldn't say anything or cry out for her - sweat started pouring down my face and my back and my eyes shut and I thought - this is it, I'm dying - and like you say I was completely calm and almost detached from it all. For some reason my mum got up and saw me and she shouted for a nurse and they came in and started to treat me. I don't know what made her get up (she was reading a book). My blood sugar had crashed through the floor.

I was not very well following that surgery (lost consciousness several times) and it put me off ever having surgery again.

I don't know if I was dying but all I know is that it felt like it, I felt like I was slipping away.

I suspect it depends on your perspective. If you're a patient dying from some painful cancer, then it probably hurts less. If you're a relatively healthy person dying from a knife attack it probably hurts much more.