General anaesthetic, closest to death you can get?

dowie said:
yup pretty much... you don't dream you're just completely out of it for the entire process

and yes waking up from an operation, at least the first time, is a very nice experience - I remember being super happy (thanks to the morphine) - no concept of time you go under then next thing you're aware of some nurse is attending to you as you come around...
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Not when you experience drug induced psychosis it isn't! (Happens to about 1% I was told by explanation)
 
Had heart surgery a few years back and they put me under on a Thursday and woke me up fully the following Saturday. Mad feeling that you've lost days and have no recollection. Apparently while in intensive care I was talking to one of the nurses but have no memory of it whatsoever, other than when she came onto the ward I knew her face yet couldn't place where I knew her from.
 
rotters said:
When I used to work in theatres, it was funny recovering kids as they would wake and continue the count down the anaesthetist had started at induction not realising its all over.
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You made me type lol for the first time on the internet.

I've had 3 operations but the most weirdest for me was at the Dentists during the 80s and something that still haunts me.
Because I was having so much work done he said he would give me a relaxant and keep me in the chair for 2 hours and I remember at exactly 10am the needle going in.
At 10:40am I woke up and told the Dentist who said that I hadn't been asleep.
The following week I woke up 35 minutes later and once again he said I hadn't been asleep and I'd been replying and following when asked.
I still wonder what secrets I told him.
 
I must feel like I die 90% of the times I go to sleep. No dreams or thoughts remembered, just 7 hours missing from my day.
 
Ever watched a pet die of natural causes (old age)?

Lose a lot of weight, in the day before become very weak, sometimes lose control of bodily functions, or are so weak that they can't move back to their bed once they have been, basically just lie there short of breath for 18 hours before passing away.
 
Had GA once and IV sedation twice. Both were awesome. Came round from the GA laughing and babbling nonsense, almost the same coming round from the IV. I'd do both again in a heartbeat :D
 
I had my appendix burst and went under general anesthetic to have it removed - I didn't really think about it being a near death experience at all, but it was odd.

Nurse injected me and said "I want you to count to 10" so I started "one, two.........." and that was it, awoke 4 hours later on a ward, thinking "well that was weird". Didn't wake up disorientated but I was groggy and just lied there for 5 mins before I decided I needed a pee!
 
CREATIVE!11 said:
But I've sat here thinking about it, one thing we all share is we're going to die, and in that moment my conciousness just ceased to exist. All of my memories, troubles, amazing times. Gone in the blink of a eye.

Thoughts?
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Nope, you have two options.

1. Wander round the world as an earthbound spirit seeking something. Or

2. Get in the tunnel and head towards the light.
 
In medicine the closest thing to being clinacally dead is when they cool your body to 15c or such and stop your heart, you can remain like that for 30mins or so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11389464

The fact you are as good as dead would debunk any idea of the afterlife in my opinion. If anything it makes the idea of suspended animation a more realistic prospect in the future.
 
norm said:
In medicine the closest thing to being clinacally dead is when they cool your body to 15c or such and stop your heart, you can remain like that for 30mins or so.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11389464

The fact you are as good as dead would debunk any idea of the afterlife in my opinion. If anything it makes the idea of suspended animation a more realistic prospect in the future.
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Such thing got a phase 1(the lowest form of study to try and see if it's remotely possible) studies at nasa last year.

http://www.nasa.gov/content/torpor-inducing-transfer-habitat-for-human-stasis-to-mars/
 
Mr. Pickle said:
Ever watched a pet die of natural causes (old age)?

Lose a lot of weight, in the day before become very weak, sometimes lose control of bodily functions, or are so weak that they can't move back to their bed once they have been, basically just lie there short of breath for 18 hours before passing away.
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NO - we have had our pet's put to sleep before that point - Not much before but we recognised they were dieing and ended it peacefully for them.

My first operation was nightmare - They put a rubber mask over my mouth and nose and dripped chloriform over it - I was 6 or 7 and when I woke up I was sick as dog - not a very nice experience. subsiquent operations were as described above - count to 10 then next thing you wake up.

I imagine my Mom went like she was put to sleep - she called my brother "Les I am going" by time he got upstairs she had died.

I have no fear now of operations but hope I pass away as though I was going for an Op.

Dave
 
Mr. Pickle said:
Ever watched a pet die of natural causes (old age)?

Lose a lot of weight, in the day before become very weak, sometimes lose control of bodily functions, or are so weak that they can't move back to their bed once they have been, basically just lie there short of breath for 18 hours before passing away.
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Reminds me when my cat died :(
 
MeatSack said:
Another question you should ask, would you be excited to come back and live again?
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I don't think immortality is that far away for humankind, it's the eventual end point for all the research and development that is taking place. Give it another 100-200 years.
 
I get over the concept of mortality simply by thinking I wasn't around for billions of years before I was born, and I didn't much care.

The only hard bit is knowing it awaits you.
 
I felt my arm either being slowly weighed down or losing control of it and then out. However I then woke up (seemingly immediately, but actually after the operation) very groggy with a terrible headache that took me a while to get over.
 
It bends my mind when I consider what occurred, over such a vast time frame before I existed and I had (obviously) no concept of it. It lead me to think that (and this is difficult to explain), the universe ends when you die, having no concept of the passage of time again it stands to reason that equilibrium is instant.
 
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