Comment on Most people do not know how they died
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I wanted to initially reiterate swordgeek’s thought as well, but I see what you have meant. If you refer to people dying from a sudden force, like being shot in the head by a sniper or dying while sleeping, then you do have a point.
j4k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Not just that really. I have watched 3 people die and none really knew what was happening or when it was coming even when intuitively it would seem like they should. I was apparently lucid for parts of 3 hours that was a total blackness in my memory for years. I have 2 little parts that feel like a very fuzzy dream, but if I had died, I wouldn’t have known anything about the last experiences, pain, or struggle. For a long time I thought that was only due to the massive head injury I had, but thinking of others I have watched die, I see a similar lucid like state without much if any awareness. Sure they were in pain, I certainly was, but there is a disconnect between the sensation of pain in the body from wounds and the trauma that leads to death (IMO). That trauma does not seem to have a tie to conscious experience. It is almost like we are in user space, death in in kernel space, and we can never fully experience kernel space.
I’m in so much pain all the time that even breaking bones does little to phase me any more. I already hurt worse than almost anything anyone can do to me. It yields an interesting perspective on the nuance of death IMO. My intended nuances are often missed on Lemmy.
PlasticExistence@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can relate. There are a lot of users who insist on assuming ill intent where there is none.