Does dying feel like youre just going to sleep?

There are a lot of different ways to die. But being dead is the same for everyone. And resurrection is unreliable.

All of us like to sleep

I had severe pancreatitis.

I weighed 88pds from 170pds. I couldn’t eat or drink.

I was slipping in and out of consciousness. A lot of morphine.

It felt like I was in the constant falling dream down black hole. Not very fun. Nothing to hold onto.

I was just thinking about stuff that meant something to me. Then Felt like someone gave me a choice.. live or die. I chose live and promptly came out of it.

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Rupp fan wrote:

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

I love it, I never heard this one.

It's an old one

Quickest way to die is probably one of the scariest to most people: a bullet to the brain...on second thought, someone shot in the head may not even die..i recant my initial statement.

It may seem like someone is dead immediately after being shot in the head but what's more likely the case is that they can't move due to extreme nerve signal disruption and who knows when the point of death actually occurs. You're not going to die from blood loss immediately after being shot in the head.

People who know me consider me to be highly intelligent even though I insist that I am a moron. At age 40, I just figured out that “Jack Handy” is an obscene play on words. Letsrun, you may be degenerate dirtbags. But thank you for always understanding that I am a buffoon.

Usually it's horrifying to die, incredible painful. We need a cure for ageing.

A friend of mine was dating a 24 year old guy who had been diagnosed with cancer for about a year. It was aggressive and they only gave him a few months to live. He promised his family he'd make it to Christmas. Well, he fought hard and made it to Christmas, and died on Christmas day. My friend was there throughout his last day. She said it was horrible. Because he was so young, his will power and/or body was strong enough to keep fighting throughout the process of dying. She said he died several times that day, and kept waking up from it. Each time, his heart and breathing stopped and he died for a few seconds or even minutes. Then he'd suddenly wake up again looking terrified, confused, and surprised. She was actually very offended that the obituary said "he died peacefully". It was quite the opposite. RIP

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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?

Someone should add an upvote feature on these forums.

True Story Teller wrote:

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.

Same here. I had a heart attack 4 years ago (while running). I also didn't die. ;) It was very scary at first, but as time passed, I became very calm and resigned to the thought that "this is the end and I'm OK with that". For me it was similar to the feeling of a severe bonk. In fact, at first I thought that was what was happening, but as the squeeze pressure around my upper body increased (felt a bit like a stronger & stronger bear hug) I realized it was more serious. I felt extremely tired and weak. It was very uncomfortable, but not a sharp pain. By the time I was in the ER triage area, I was very relaxed and just kind of taking in the experience. Fortunately, they were able to get me into the cath lab where they opened one full blockage and 2 partial. While I'm certainly in no hurry to die, I no longer "fear" it.

probably painless if it's carbon monoxide poisoning. Like letting your car engine run in a closed garage.

Painless, but not good to let suicidal people know about it. The suicide prevention hotline is actually the first hit on Google to the query: is death by carbon monoxide poisoning painful

https://www.quora.com/Is-death-by-carbon-monoxide-painful-Why-or-why-not

Near death experiences are fairly well documented and not uncommon. They are different from dreams and hallucinations in several respects.

My older brother died of complications from AIDS some years back. Four months before he died, he apparently passed away in hospice, then he began breathing again.

He told me that he met two teachers who were akin to spots of light. They were happy to see him, and he was happy to be with them, and right away they plunged into teaching him. He felt free and joyful.

Then one of the teachers told him there had been a mistake and he'd have to return to his body. He refused, but the teacher apologized and told my bro it was not his choice.

Our very Catholic dad told me he thought the whole episode was due to dementia. OK dad.

My own experience has to do with an encounter with the substance DMT. It seemed I'd left my body and was free of the experience of "time". All action took place simultaneously in the present. The human body was actually a "filter" to break down experience into the illusion of linear time. In other words, the experience of time is a by product of visiting the planet in a meat suit.

And so on (as the late, great Kurt Vonnegut might say).

anonpuious wrote:

he died several times that day, and kept waking up from it. Each time, his heart and breathing stopped and he died for a few seconds or even minutes.

That's not dying. It ain't over until the fat lady sings, i.e. brain activity stops.

The greatest gift I may have given my mother was to let you die the way she wanted--at home and without more chemo. She had cancer. She had gone through surgery and chemo for 2 cancers that occurred about 5 years apart. She spent much time in a hospital for treatments over those 2 battles.

With this 3rd cancer she did not want to go through chemo a 3rd time. She died about 7 days after an appointment with oncologist to discuss options. She had less time than anyone expected as the oncologist was still discussing scheduling another test to confirm the type of cancer. My father and I cared for my mother in their home during that last week with the help of a hospice nurses who visited each day for an hour or so. We attempted to keep my mother as comfortable as possible. Caring for her meant my father and I got little sleep that week. We had little appetite and mostly ate since we knew we needed it to keep going. We actually thought she was going to pass the day before due to her irregular breathing. Hospice stayed with us the day/evening she passed. We were very grateful for their help and for the ability for us to give her morphine via drops to the inside of her mouth. They gave her another small dose to keep her comfortable at the end. It was very hard to watch and listen as she spent many hours before finally dying. I sure hope we gave her enough morphine that last week and at the end so that she passed as peacefully as possible.

I think you’re looking at it wrong. Everyday of your life you are in the process of dying. In that respect dying is not, “just like going to sleep.” There are moments of severe pain, moments of happiness and all of the other multifaceted sensations that come along with a human life. When you finally cross over the immediate moments before could be extreme agony or perhaps pleasant or maybe unnoticed. I doubt you would be able to recollect or recover any of those sensations you had while you were alive, once dead- a key difference between going to sleep, where you wake up.

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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?"

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She asks all the right questions. As she grows up she will find that people will avoid answering to make themselves look good.

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I think you’re looking at it wrong. Everyday of your life you are in the process of dying. In that respect dying is not, “just like going to sleep.” There are moments of severe pain, moments of happiness and all of the other multifaceted sensations that come along with a human life. When you finally cross over the immediate moments before could be extreme agony or perhaps pleasant or maybe unnoticed. I doubt you would be able to recollect or recover any of those sensations you had while you were alive, once dead- a key difference between going to sleep, where you wake up.

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That's one way to look at it. It is one of those things that can be said to be true. It also can be said to be one-sided, of negative context, and even within religious or political fanaticism.

Sure as soon as conception begins there is a process of "dying" in that the zygote has to form into a fetus which will progressively turn into a baby that will turn into a child that will turn into an adult, that will turn into an older-person who will eventually die. Considering regular human life-span ( up to 100 years under "favorable" conditions such as genetics, luck, and what best-possible life's circumstances a person is born into and is able to stay within for as long as possible), biologically and/or physically dying is a long process even though any one person's life consists of time that is just a blip considering the trillions of eons it took for life to form.

However there is a "peak" that humans have to reach within their life span. From birth (leaving out any defects or severe health problems or anything that is really limiting) a person is progressively living and growing physically. Psychologically can be a completely different thing, but when life is meant to be, it is meant to be.

One cannot realistically say that youth does not matter. Of course that can depend on individual health, but life's stages are such that life begins a process of living until time brings one to a point where age really begins to take over as never before. It is when our peak of physical abilities and health begin to become less and less.

Same with practically all living things (plants, animals, insects) on earth and perhaps in the universe. Some life forms live longer than others of course.

The idea of "Dying" can be actually play on the human mind so that people take it out of context. Life is for the purpose of life. Death also contributes to life in its own way.

Is life only for the purpose of death since that is what always happens? Can the dead be conscious and give us ideas?

Now only the living can make up a lot of scenarios about that.