Has Anyone Who Has Skydived Died Before They Skydived?

[PhoenixPhive 0]

it was work related

[greybeard 0]

I died in 1978. Bagged and tagged. Made my first skydive in 1989.

[BlindBrick 0]

Never died, but I do see the world through the eyes of dead people.

-Blind

"If you end up in an alligator's jaws, naked, you probably did something to deserve it."

[vanair 0]

OK, I'll bite. Tell the story.

[BlueSkiesJT 0]

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it was work related

It happens.

[Andy9o8 0]

No offense to those who've experienced temporary cardiac arrest and now go through life telling people "I died", but they need to revise their definitions. Dead is dead. There's no typing on the internet afterward.

That being said, I'm glad you're all still here with us.

[OlympiaStoica 0]

I had to read that title 3 times ... I wasn't quite sure what you mean
I had died (and was revived) during surgery 17 years ago -- I recall nothing; no "white light", no "floating above the Earth" no nothing ...

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[PhoenixPhive 0]

you are wrong: it changes someone "forever"

[peregrinerose 0]

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you are wrong: it changes someone "forever"

I don't think that he disputes your experience. Only that the temporary cessation of respiration and heartbeat does not mean that one is dead (note the word 'temporary' in the sentance. Death is the permanent cessation thereof.

Oh... and your title about made my eyes cross trying to figure out what on earth you were talking about.

Do or do not, there is no try -Yoda

[Andy9o8 0]

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I had died (and was revived)

Then you hadn't died.

[oldwomanc6 38]

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I had died (and was revived)

Then you hadn't died.

But saying "I died" is much less cumbersome than saying "I suffered temporary cardiac and respiratory cessation followed by chemical and neurological misfires resulting in an extra-corporeal hallucinations whereby I acquired knowledge that by all rights I should never have been privy to".

Is there a short (one or two word) term that you would suggest we substitute when talking about our experiences?

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[Andy9o8 0]

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I had died (and was revived)

Then you hadn't died.

But saying "I died" is much less cumbersome than saying "I suffered temporary cardiac and respiratory cessation followed by chemical and neurological misfires resulting in an extra-corporeal hallucinations whereby I acquired knowledge that by all rights I should never have been privy to".

Is there a short (one or two word) term that you would suggest we substitute when talking about our experiences?

Cardiac arrest? Cardiac and respiratory arrest? Temporary cardiac and respiratory arrest with hallucinations? Hallucinations with lasting post-incident psychological effects? Sorry for going over your one-to-two-word limit. But thanks anyway, at the least, for acknowledging the hypoxia/anoxia-induced hallucinations for what they were: hallucinations.

If you feel the need to craft a convenient definition, for your ease of use, which has more accuracy to it than error, the task of doing so is less mine than yours; but in any event, death is what it is, and it ain't what it ain't.

[NewGuy2005 51]

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Is there a short (one or two word) term that you would suggest we substitute when talking about our experiences?

I hear the term "Near Death" used sometimes.