To your knowledge, what event brought you closest to death?

[Peh]

Ganoncrotch said:

Peh said:
Plenty of times in my dreams and who knows how often in video games.

But for me it was passing into a coma in the middle to end of last year, Hypoglycemia (diabetes low sugar level) had set in pretty bad, my low sugared brain figured the thing to do would be put my head down and rest.... woke up 6-8 hours later in ER having docs calling my name out... remember hearing it called as "Victor" so I corrected them to a lot of shock that I was awake again, then continued to answer loads of questions wrong regarding the day/date/year but that's just me I think lol.

Fucking hurt after once I found out what happened though, my heart rate dropped to the region of 20bpm so they had been doing chest compression's while I was out, the bruising on my ribs and diaphragm took weeks to recover from, was home in bed by 6am the following morning and then when I woke up was peeling off the EKG stickers from around my body when I found them.... was rather scary stuff.

On asking the docs about it, they said that I would likely have recovered from it if I had not been found... but there is a chance that I would have continued to decline and pass away given my heartrate and sugar levels at the time, apparently from that condition the chance of dying is 5% so I had a 1 in 20 chance to just fall asleep and stay there.

You would be dead without realising it. It surely is a strange experience, yet knowing it is far stranger.

 

In the end it is like falling asleep without knowing when you fell asleep. Death in this kind of sense is the same.

I'm feeling really curious about what happens next. My bet is, you will move on to another living organism without knowing what happened to the last one. Question is, what kind of medium would cause that.