A Near Death Experience: A Case Study

I had been cringing about day for so long. I was completely terrified to go into that room. As the door opened I was exposed to a cold draft and I could feel the dense air. The day I was told this needed to be done was horrifying, and now it’s actually happening. They rolled me over to a new bed and I looked around seeing doctors everywhere. There was a table that they rolled next to me and on it was things that I can’t even explain. They put a green mask on me with tubes going through both sides of it. They told me I’d get drowsy and all of the sudden I closed my eyes and it was happening. I was getting knee surgery.

I fought the thoughts of not being able to breathe and allowing myself to have a panic attack. I have never been very religious, but it got to a point where counting didn’t help and the moment that destroyed my health replayed over and over. It was the few seconds prior to blacking out, to when I looked up at my rearview mirror and saw a truck coming right for me because he fell asleep. These thirty minutes of darkness symbolized the endless emotional and physical pain I had endured and my return to the darkness, which I cannot explain. So I prayed, hoping that even though I couldn’t remember all the verses, it would end the spinning and the torture. These moments of fear were more than claustrophobia; it was also a concoction of sadness. Sadness, that uncovered my weak and fragile human being self to the world because I had still not healed. As these thoughts deepened, the bed of the MRI machine began to move outward and I knew it was over. I hadn’t realized that my body was trembling until they took the thick white sheet off me. It revealed my shaking legs covered in Goosebumps and so, I pulled my fuzzy green socks up and with their help got off the bed. I wondered if that’s what it was like to live through a traumatic event or was it me being dramatic? Either way, I shut the door leaving the loud and terrible noises behind me. As I walked out, I could never see myself laying in that room again, unable to escape the endless

Life after death is a widely discussed issue all over the world today. With the various amounts of religions and their beliefs of what occurs post-death, it causes a great amount of controversy. Scientists have been conducting research and experiments to try and find a solution for it. Movies, articles, books and etc have been created to try and persuade the citizens of the world to believe in one way or another. As we gain more technology and ways of thinking, more investigations are taking place. Some experts say that we go to heaven and hell, others say we reincarnate into another form of living, and the idea of going to another dimension is possible. Reports have been made in witnesses passing and coming back in a different form with remembrance of their past life. A solution to this issue is to hold a study of multiple individuals and for scientists to create a way to see what happens after they pass with the technology we obtain. Everyone’s life eventually comes to an end, including you and I; wouldn't it be relieving to know what occurs after each and every person takes their final breath?

This article was written by Tom Lott, and this article talks about his near death experience and how

I think i found my destination. Sheer magnitude of energy arose from my body. I felt unreal. Seriously. Have you ever stop and question your existence. Who am i and why am i here? Detachment and utter numbness of “reality”. This anomalous out-of-body experience rush must means this is the end me? “ Mike i have to go to the hospital i think i'm dying.” I said panicking at my inner experience. I was an onlooker of this universe - at least it seemed. “ Brenda please relax, youre not dying. and stop crying!” he said as he walked me to his car. “ come on, I am going to take you to my house.” . From this moment i knew this isn't what i wanted to

From personal experiences in high school, I formulated the belief of not truly understanding real life without experiencing death or near death. It might be stated that both life prior to a near death experience and after the event are in fact life, however, there is a distinct line between the two. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” utilizes the idea of appearance versus reality; both may appear true, but only one is real. Plato’s tool for doubting what one thinks they know can be directly correlated to my own belief of not knowing life until it nearly dissappears, by distinguishing between appearance and reality.

They had to run so much tests and questions before surgery it was so annoying. Later I find myself laying in bed getting everything connected on me so I could go to the surgery room. They said it would take about thirty minutes to finish the process of the surgery. When they came to get me I literally started to scream “wheeeeee” in the hallway while they pulled me away from my room. As I entered the surgery room it became so cold that my breath could be visible. Later a guy started to explain to me on what their going to do and how they're going to put me on the

First, Religion is a strong opponent with near-death experiences. The Bible, Koran and the Tibetan

Why was I the one to get pulled? There were so many people at the party and I was the one to get interrogated? My luck. The officer sat me down at a table in a bland room with non-transparent glass. He sat down across from me and looked at me with a death stare. After about a minute or so, he said “ Hello Mr. Khalifa, I’m officer Marcus Hopson”. I sat apprehensively thinking about what to say. “Okay well you already know what you’re in here for, so start talking” Hopson said. All I could do was look down. Once I decided to talk, I said “What are you wanting to hear from me?”. Hopson laughed and turned around to look at me in the reflective glass. Looking at me more intensely in the glass, he said “Don’t play stupid. We know you were at that

Death: How the perspective of people changes when they are on the edge of life.

The process of making decisions for terminally ill patients at the edge of death is a difficult and complex one. The case study, A Difficult Death draws on Dave, a middle-aged successful man, diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and is terminally ill. Together Dave, his wife Mary, and their daughter Bethany must face Dave’s demise and the emotional toll that it has taken on the family.

It was a warm fall day in early October, a day that I recall quite vividly. The smells of the transition from summer to fall were in the air, accompanied by the sounds of birds singing and the wind blowing through the trees. It was on this beautiful day that my existence was almost terminated. A quick hunting trip could have ended my life.

After reading this scenario about this patient, there are a few things that I wonder about and things that could have potentially contributed to this patient’s death. First, I do not understand why they did not place an Ewald tube down this patient and perform some sort of gastric lavage with activated charcoal (Gastric, 2017). They did all the work to stabilize the patient, but did not remove the remainder of the product, causing the acidosis. Basically, I feel that the patient came in with metabolic acidosis because of the aspirin, was stabilized, but then developed metabolic acidosis again. Which could have lead to a whole new list of complications to develop.

     Imagine yourself lying on an operating table, motionless, quiet. Above, you notice people standing over you. You try to speak but the words just cannot come out. Your arms feel as if they are plastered to the table. You begin to stand up but feel as if weights are strapped to your back and you are bound to the table. Suddenly you feel a sharp pain in your midsection. In and out, you see a surgeon slicing your body open with a scalpel. Every motion the masked person makes is as if you are being torn apart from the inside out. One would hope this would simply be a nightmare and they will wake up and everything will be fine. In this instance, this person will

A couple quotes from people who said they felt nothing; “Overdosed on heroine, EMT’s said my heart stopped. Didn’t see anything, just like sleeping with no dreams.” and “Pure,perfect, uninterrupted sleep,no dreams.”. A quote from someone who felt like they could see what was happening while dead; , “I do remember a little bit of the ambulance ride, but not from my own body. It was seriously the strangest thing I have ever experienced. It could have been a dream, but I saw my own unconscious body completely flatlined in the ambulance. I remember the EMT who was in the ambulance with me (whom I did not see before I passed out)”. And here is a quote from someone who had an interaction; "I was standing somewhere. There was a fog all around me, and I saw my best friend (who at the time I'd been fighting with and he'd stopped talking to me) come out of the mist. He told me that I couldn't go yet, that I have to keep trying, and if I promised not to give up, he'd see me back on Earth. I wordlessly agreed, and I was instantly pushed (into?) my body.".