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Have you died and been revived?

  • 10-01-2012 2:04pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭


    Reading in another thread that this happened to someone and I find it fascinating. Has it happened you?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,080 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Most Mondays..........:cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,663 ✭✭✭Immaculate Pasta


    Are you the young wan from the Sixth Sense? I've always wondered what happened to him :cool:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭iii Stevo iii


    Are you the young wan from the Sixth Sense? I've always wondered what happened to him :cool:

    This:
    haley-joel-osment-isnt-looking-so-good-looks-like-an-old-val-kilmer.jpg


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Yea a few times but usually the ****ers just walk past you and you have to respawn.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭gamgsam


    Correct answer is no, but something close kind of.

    A couple of years ago there was a fad called 'the american dream' which went around a few friends in limerick. It was a way to knock someone out temporarily - based on shallow water blackout if there are any divers here or if anyone wants to check out my story as true.

    Anyway, you sqaut down and huff and puff till all your air is gone from your lungs, then stand up with one big breath. Two people hold your arms and one pushes your chest. Your job is simply to hold your breath. Then you pass out.

    A lot of people chickened out and breathed out but I was stubborn and ended up in blackout. Woke up to being wedgied by my friend literally dragged around a green by my jocks until I gradually came to again (I'm told I was out around 20 sec or so). Some friend eh? Oh well, I was stupid enough to try it.

    So I haven't really died or anything just blacked out. It isn't something I would willingly do again.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    What fascinates you about it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    I have had" Le petit mort".


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,137 ✭✭✭44leto


    gamgsam wrote: »
    Correct answer is no, but something close kind of.

    A couple of years ago there was a fad called 'the american dream' which went around a few friends in limerick. It was a way to knock someone out temporarily - based on shallow water blackout if there are any divers here or if anyone wants to check out my story as true.

    Anyway, you sqaut down and huff and puff till all your air is gone from your lungs, then stand up with one big breath. Two people hold your arms and one pushes your chest. Your job is simply to hold your breath. Then you pass out.

    A lot of people chickened out and breathed out but I was stubborn and ended up in blackout. Woke up to being wedgied by my friend literally dragged around a green by my jocks until I gradually came to again (I'm told I was out around 20 sec or so). Some friend eh? Oh well, I was stupid enough to try it.

    So I haven't really died or anything just blacked out. It isn't something I would willingly do again.

    Yes you were, you complete ####, 20 seconds you could have given yourself brain damage.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,766 ✭✭✭juan.kerr


    No, not that I'm aware of.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,075 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    This:
    haley-joel-osment-isnt-looking-so-good-looks-like-an-old-val-kilmer.jpg

    'I eat dead people' :pac:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 292 ✭✭gamgsam


    44leto wrote: »
    Yes you were, you complete ####, 20 seconds you could have given yourself brain damage.

    I know, I now study in this field so I'm well aware of how dangerous it was. What can I say? Stupid mistake, luckily there seems to be no effect.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34,809 ✭✭✭✭smash


    gamgsam wrote: »
    Anyway, you sqaut down and huff and puff till all your air is gone from your lungs, then stand up with one big breath. Two people hold your arms and one pushes your chest. Your job is simply to hold your breath. Then you pass out.

    Used to do this all the time, but one time my mates let me go and I fell and hurt my back pretty bad. I came to just as they were all running away. Bastards!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,290 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Long story, but yep. Didn't see the tunnel of light stuff, but did have a well cool out of body experience. Very odd feeling disembodied I can tell you. Seeing without eyes, hearing without ears etc. Really fcuking oddball.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,422 ✭✭✭✭Bruthal


    44leto wrote: »
    Yes you were, you complete ####, 20 seconds you could have given yourself brain damage.

    Normal breathing will resume after the hyper-ventilation assisted breath hold. There is no real urgent urge to breath so the person can hold breath till blackout. During the 20 seconds mentioned above, the person will have resumed breathing.

    In the case of it happening in breath hold dives, there is a serious danger of drowning, as the person starts breathing if they blackout under the water.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,062 ✭✭✭al28283


    gamgsam wrote: »
    I know, I now study in this field so I'm well aware of how dangerous it was. What can I say? Stupid mistake, luckily there seems to be no effect.

    I wouldn't say that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 766 ✭✭✭mkdon05


    smash wrote: »
    What fascinates you about it?

    Probably the fact that it is something that will happen very few people. If there was no medical intervention they would be gone. I watched the Terry Pratchett documentary recently about legal suicide and I think it has me affected, all things death related are more interesting to me now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,050 ✭✭✭gazzer


    smash wrote: »
    Used to do this all the time, but one time my mates let me go and I fell and hurt my back pretty bad. I came to just as they were all running away. Bastards!

    Me and my mates used to do this back in the early 80's. I never got it done on me (was too chicken) did it a few times on people though until I had a really scary incident and thought I had killed somebody (they were out for what felt like forever). Luckily they were ok but that was it for me. Went back to playing football :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,633 ✭✭✭Feeona


    Hmmm, maybe some researchers into sudden adult death syndrome would like to take a look at this thread!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭Angeles


    3 times actually, and each were in hospital... don't worry though, Preety sure i have 6 left.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 470 ✭✭Fran1985


    a mate of mine did. wasn't there at the time but the rest of the lads were. Scary stuff getting a text about this (before i knew he was ok), but not as scary as being there i'd say. Here's a video he did after it

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP70PZCA10o

    Just rewatched the video. Must be pointed out that if a fireman hadn't been volunteering upstairs in the bar, no one would've known how to use this machine. Also because it hadn't been charged, there was only enough power for 2 blasts. Thankfully he didn't need anymore. needless to say a lot more people in the club know how to use this now and its fully charged. Lucky guy


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,838 ✭✭✭midlandsmissus


    We also used to do the American dream as very young teenagers. I blacked out once. Its pretty scary looking back how it was seen as just a game, I mean it's a pretty crazy thing to be doing! Where did the idea come from and how did it spread like wildfire around Ireland?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭cassid


    Watched my baby getting resusicated, not nice at all, and something will never forget.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,036 ✭✭✭cocoshovel


    Fran1985 wrote: »

    Just rewatched the video. Must be pointed out that if a fireman hadn't been volunteering upstairs in the bar, no one would've known how to use this machine. Also because it hadn't been charged, there was only enough power for 2 blasts. Thankfully he didn't need anymore. needless to say a lot more people in the club know how to use this now and its fully charged. Lucky guy

    Doesnt take a fire man to know how to use one of those. They actually talk to you and there are instruction on them but thats good to hear.

    Everyone should learn how do to CPR and it probably should be taught in schools. Its so easy to do and really increases the chances of surviving after an incident like that.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    This is going to be one of those threads that makes you think you're death is imminent when you read it with a hangover.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    I did something very messed up in february of last year. I was told I went into fit in A&E in Cork (by my family). Something really stoopid. I came round on the sunday evening (the nght after) that it was touch and go.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭wolf moon


    I died and I've never been revived. Is that bad?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Domo230 wrote: »
    My brothers friend was killed by this.
    Is there any way to get tested for it?
    I train or am at the gym 6 days a week and if there was an option to get tested for this I would do it.

    There is a scan you can have. It incorporates a number of different tests like having an ECG to record your hearts electrical activity , wearing a heart monitor for 24 hours to record your heart rhythm, the taking of medication to bring out changes in the heart which are not apparent in the ordinary resting ECG and genetic testing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,030 ✭✭✭✭Chuck Stone


    Fran1985 wrote: »
    a mate of mine did. Here's a video he did after it

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP70PZCA10o

    Holy shit I never knew a defibrillator could make your pelvis thrust like that (@ 1:30). :eek:



    I'm a bad person.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    Hasnt happened to me yet, as far as...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    ...i know, altough i wouldnt mind experiencing it, just for the laugh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 579 ✭✭✭cartell_best


    ...i know, altough i wouldnt mind experiencing it, just for the laugh.


    Know ya don't lad, trust me


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,312 ✭✭✭Daftendirekt


    wolf moon wrote: »
    I died and I've never been revived. Is that bad?

    Well, the lack of a pulse is bad enough... But the heart stopping - that's the real danger sign.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    I once saw Brian Cowen eat Chicken Wings with a Barbecue sauce. All over the place so it was.

    So yeah.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,485 ✭✭✭✭Ickle Magoo


    Well, the lack of a pulse is bad enough... But the heart stopping - that's the real danger sign.

    I would have thought one was a direct consequence of the other... :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Domo230 wrote: »
    Any idea roughly how much it would cost?

    I don't tbh, maybe try contacting C.R.Y they're an organisation who are involved with creating public awareness for SADS.


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