UPDATE (15/04/2012): There seems to be A LOT of people that are brought here from search results about “what dying feels like.” Please, please, please… If you are thinking of killing yourself, seek help. Maybe you don’t realise it, but there are a lot of people who care and will help you.
IF you have ever wondered what dying feels like, you will find your interest in the New Scientist article, How does it feel to die?.
The article describes various dying processes in great detail. These include drowning (which I find particularly intriguing: 55% of drowning victims were good swimmers and died within 30 to 90 seconds a mere 3 metres from safey), bleeding (which is described as more alarming than painful), and falling from great heights (which is the nastiest way to die).
The author rightly warns that the article may not be appropriate to everyone lest they suffer a stroke. Which, incidentally, is also covered.
Eddy.
Are you saying that if you had a choice, you would choose drowning ? :-)
My view on death: We won’t know what it’s exactly like until we die, but once dead, we cannot pass on this knowledge.
No Thanks! Life is too much fun too die!
PATRICK, These dying processes are based on accounts given by people who have had near-death experiences. “Near-death” is characterised by the loss of consciousness which precedes the brain shutting down in the process of dying.
Eddy.
i am the dead i have bin for over 400 years me and my
parish obliveis we are the darkness you can join if you wish
for we will never die as long as we drink the blood of the
humen
To tell you the truth, thinking about it is sure is terryfying but when it does happen to you and your unprepared there is a moment when you can feel that the time actually slowed down which feels like 1 second becomes like a minute and then you your brain goes blank completly. You only hear your thoughts in your head as it speaks slowly for a while. Then you notice that your surroundings all becomes calmer and you don’t really feel anything. But if you survived that moment and realized that your stil alive , pretty sure that your body will be pretified for a while and you will sure reflect whats your life is worth. Thats how death feels like and the moment you really are saved by the bell. Becareful though, it changes you completly if you do survive it.
I tried it and not to brag or anything, but I miss the feeling of knowing that its all about to end.
It feels differently when you are dying in a different ways.I am a doctor and I have seen many people dying.For instance, those patients who have asthmatic attack suffer very much pain in acute sense,patients of cancer die slowly and gradually(they suffer the most emotionally and physicallly for prolonged periods) and than there are those who are brought in shock state and they dye like nothing happened to them at all !
My point is that how do you feel just before or at the time of death depends on your previous state.Hope I have explained it well enough what I am trying to say.
Brought here for two reasons. I once wrote about suicide, an extremely “taboo” subject (I was to later learn by intense chastisement). My focus was how to get off so that an insurance policy would be paid. I did find not many saw any humor (as I did) as I tackle topics which most will not admit to having contemplation. I find most lie. Second, something is terribly, horribly wrong with my body. I suffer with unimaginable pain and have welcomed not waking up, when the pain relents enough for me to sleep regeneratively. I was on medicare, someone erred, went on medicaid, someone erred, couldn’t obtain medical help after a surgery nor recuperative therapy. I retain a wonder for life however unbearable yet after a few months of sheer torture, feel as if the life force isn’t coming back. Once a vital, serving person, physical exertion was my natural high. I got out of bed singing and on the run, so looking forward to whatever my waking hours creativity brought, with a sense of gratification, even if unpleasant duties. Lately I cannot rouse from the bed. My energy is gone. This is time for me! Yet I cannot, most time, get out of the door. Ten minutes up, eat, back to bed for “just a bit” of rest. I am 62. I did successfully raise a handful of kids on a mini ranch. I sewed, made a clothing line, wrote programs (booklets) for at risk youth, nominated to peace corps, served in legal services, IT tech for major corporation, Security, maintain integrity, blah blah blah, accolades! Yet it is as if the life force is being sucked right out of me! I have atrophied past a point of recovery. I do not have the energy to get an attorney because I feel as if the medication given me, did this. I cannot force myself up. Pain has me trained. Money has me shackled. My creativity is depleted. I have a pet that is fun and enjoy a modicum of internet interaction, tv, a little gaming online but something is so wrong I cannot quite identify it. So thus my search for symptoms, a means to identify how I feel, truly, and if I cannot find words, felt perhaps I could identify through the experience of another. MS came close but hypoglycemia and something adrenal came closer. I feel like I am dying and it isn’t any fun. I also have some genetic situations in my family so hope that I cAn continue to serve mankind, after, but I haven’t had fun yet. I have my bucket list but cannot get up and at it. I live, otherwise alone, no family. No one ever called me lazy until I do myself lately. I cannot identify any stimulous whatsoever. It being disdainful for me to recgonize within myself as one who took two showers a day and brushed teeth after snacks, haven’t changed my bed in two weeks. This disclosure may be premature however, for one as vital as I to reach this level is terrifying. Thanks for listening and have a suggestion(s)? So very welcomed! I need purpose but lost ability. If you recovered from something similar, how did you accomplish that recovery? All ideas taken seriously and to heart.
Wow, I could have written that. I have a terminal slow growing disease diagnosed in 7/09. I get up every morning. I guess I occasionally think death would be better, complete. I like you was a doer, worked 2 jobs, kids dating. Just go go go. Now I go to bed between MN and 2am and sleep til noon. I do one activity every day without fail, Walk my dog friends. Otherwise some times I don’t leave for anything else. Is this how dying feels losing your life energy,losing your desire, losing who and what I once was. My friends still reach out but most the time I”m really not interested. Well I still wonder what it feels like, and how long I will be living it