17 People Who Almost Died Shared Their "Last Thoughts" And It's Dark But Interesting
People say your life flashes before your eyes before you die, and though I haven't been close to death before, I have to imagine that it's less like movie clips and more like random racing thoughts.
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Recently, Reddit user u/Mynameisnowbob confirmed this when they asked people who have come close to dying to share their "final" thoughts. Here's what played through their minds:
1."Wow, I'm going to find out what it's like to die in an airplane crash."
"I was on a commercial jet that caught fire during takeoff. The cabin filled with smoke, the pilot didn't say a word, and the plane suddenly pitched forward as if we were going to nosedive. I was weirdly calm and just thought, Wow, I'm going to find out what it's like to die in an airplane crash."
2."I have a calculus exam in four hours; I should be sleeping."
"While my body shut down from hypothermia."
3."I kept thinking, Is this really happening? Fuck, this is really happening.”
"I was having a heart issue/medication complication, which I would find out at the hospital later. I could feel my heart pounding out of my chest, but I kept getting weaker and weaker. I fell to my knees and pulled out my phone to dial 911."
4.“Of course this would fucking happen.”
"Choking on lots of blood after a vein in my throat was cut and burst after surgery. They were panicking because no surgeons were there to seal it."
5."OK, this is it I guess."
"I was fished out of the pool as a little kid after realizing I couldn't swim in the deep end and going under while clawing at the surface."
6."No last thoughts."
"Last thing I remember is sitting on the couch watching Friday with my brother and laughing my ass off. Then I had a stroke, and woke up a week later in the ICU."
7.“Well, I guess I’m going to die.”
"A streetlight fell on the roof of my car after I skidded off an exit ramp and hit it head on. I didn’t realize that they are intentionally constructed to be lightweight and hollow for instances such as this – I don’t run into lamp posts much. My thought as I saw it slowly tilt forward until it came down on my car was literally, Well, I guess I’m going to die. Then I just waited for it happen. I didn’t have much time to process anything else. I was relieved when it merely dented my roof and unceremoniously rolled off my car and landed in the grass beside me."
8."When did the train get so close?!!!!"
"Almost got hit by a train."
9."I had the most fleeting thought that it would be sad for my parents for me to die on Christmas."
10."I was bleeding out after tonsillectomy scars came off. As I was lying in the ambulance on the way to hospital, my thoughts were of my fiancé, saying her name three times, and telling myself to hang on for her."
11.“Where is he?”
"I was in the hospital and my husband was rushing to get there, but he didn’t make it in time. I was rushed to surgery, and he was there when I woke up, thankfully."
12.“I think this water is too deep.”
"I was 7 or 8 and was walking in the bay and didn’t know how to swim. I walked to a spot where it was over my head, and everything went black. I woke up to a life guard performing CPR."
13.“Well this is a stupid fucking way to die.”
"I recently fell 23 feet onto rocks. I was climbing a lighthouse built in the 1700s, and was being a little more reckless than I should have when I decided to climb the staircase leading to the top. The stairs could support my weight, but the roof collapsed, dropping me down and collapsing on top of me. As the stairs detached from the ceiling, my 'last' thought was, 'Well this is a stupid fucking way to die.'”
14."40/30 is really low blood pressure."
15."I fell about three stories and if I remember correctly my thoughts were: Did I really just fall off another building? and, Damn, my girlfriend is gonna kill me."
16."I just looked out the window from my hospital room into the parking lot and thought, This will be the last thing I will ever see."
17."Everything will be alright."
"It was the same thing my sister said to me in a dream the night she died. And in the moment I was dying, I absolutely believed that whether I lived or died it would be alright.
Nurses at the ER got my O2 sats back. I'm still here. Everything turned out alright so far."
If you've had a near-death experience and are comfortable sharing, what were your final thoughts? Let us know in the comments.
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