It must be a pissabolity.
Drive off a bridge?
bob(from black rock) said:
It must be a pissabolity.
I think the usual culprit is a heart attack at three in the morning. Something to do with blood pressure.
furious said:
Drive off a bridge?
I shouldn’t laugh
bob(from black rock) said:
It must be a pissabolity.
Someone can put a pillow over your mouth and nose.
Heart failure is a common one.
Subject: How can you die in your sleep?
———————-
Why, are you planning on trying it Bob?
Divine Angel said:
bob(from black rock) said:
It must be a pissabolity.
Someone can put a pillow over your mouth and nose.
I think that is called murder
by not waking up before you hit the ground in a falling dream.
Divine Angel said:
furious said:
Drive off a bridge?
I shouldn’t laugh
i’d like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather…
not kicking and screaming like the passengers in the car he was driving…
dv said:
Heart failure is a common one.
Choke on a spider.
dv said:
Heart failure is a common one.
How do you arrange that? sounds good.
bob(from black rock) said:
It must be a pissabolity.
heaps of ways.
stumpy_seahorse said:
Yeah that is a kiss putter!
Divine Angel said:
furious said:
Drive off a bridge?
I shouldn’t laugh
i’d like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather…
not kicking and screaming like the passengers in the car he was driving…
gather you mean pass on nicely while asleep rather than awake and screaming I don’t want to die while in your death throws, or changing your mind when self-terminating and on your way.
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.
Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
bob(from black rock) said:
It must be a pissabolity.
The bloke in the bed across from me when I was in hospital in 2011 got a blood nose at about 2AM; it bled so much the nurses then doctors thought it was going to kill him (he was 94). It was still bleeding copiously two hours later. He was on anticoagulants, and had been given too high a dose the night before (the doctor’s handwriting was hard to read and ambiguous, and the nurse misread it.) He survived, though, largely thanks to the efforts of one particular nurse, who simply refused to let him die.
party_pants said:
Subject: How can you die in your sleep?———————-
Why, are you planning on trying it Bob?
No just keeping my options open
transition said:
gather you mean pass on nicely while asleep rather than awake and screaming I don’t want to die while in your death throws, or changing your mind when self-terminating and on your way.
If you are sleeping, the best you can do is dream you are dying and never remember the dream.
Speedy said:
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
Yes.
Speedy said:
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
Possibly, lack of oxygen from failing lungs slowly puts you to sleep. Deaths from pneumonia are supposedly fairly peaceful. Course you have to get past the gasping for breath stage.
Speedy said:
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
Yes. My aunt, who had cancer, died in her sleep. She had pneumonia as a complication from the cancer. She took a breath, sputtered, the nurse came in but my aunt had already gone.
about 7 years ago when I was in hospital, I woke up to a Dr jumping on my chest.
BGL took a dive in the middle of the night, apparently if rounds had come by 15 minutes later it would have been all over
Speedy said:
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.Sorry to hear that :-(Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
But yes, it happens. And it’s a nice way to go.
Of course, SIDS is a way that babies die in their sleep.
It seems to be, anyway… None of them have come back and given me a report.
Divine Angel said:
Speedy said:
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
Yes. My aunt, who had cancer, died in her sleep. She had pneumonia as a complication from the cancer. She took a breath, sputtered, the nurse came in but my aunt had already gone.
Thanks DA, AwesomeO and OCDC. Her son tends to put a positive spin on everything so wasn’t sure if this was true. Good to hear that it’s possible, and even likely. She was a lovely lady who’d never smoked, but lived for most of her years in Singapore. I assume it was the pollution that triggered it.
Divine Angel said:
Of course, SIDS is a way that babies die in their sleep.
We don’t know that it is peaceful though.
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:Yes we do. Babies being monitored still die from SIDS and they don’t give any indication that anything’s happening.Of course, SIDS is a way that babies die in their sleep.We don’t know that it is peaceful though.
Speedy said:
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
I hope so,way, to go
OCDC said:
It seems to be, anyway… None of them have come back and given me a report.
you are a card. :)
roughbarked said:
Divine Angel said:
Of course, SIDS is a way that babies die in their sleep.
We don’t know that it is peaceful though.
I remember regularly as a child catching my breath after holding it, unknowingly, for too long.
OCDC said:
roughbarked said:Divine Angel said:Yes we do. Babies being monitored still die from SIDS and they don’t give any indication that anything’s happening.Of course, SIDS is a way that babies die in their sleep.We don’t know that it is peaceful though.
OK. thanks for that knowledge.
Carbon monoxide poisoning. Fall asleep and die peacefully.
Speedy said:
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
Fuck I hope so
Divine Angel said:
Carbon monoxide poisoning. Fall asleep and die peacefully.
And look beautiful. Nice rosy cheeks. But a hell of a headache along the way. You need to take pills to get past that bit. (So I’m told)
Divine Angel said:
Carbon monoxide poisoning. Fall asleep and die peacefully.
Been in the news lately with cold nights. People using outside heating stuff inside.
Speedy said:
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
AwesomeO said:
Divine Angel said:
Carbon monoxide poisoning. Fall asleep and die peacefully.
Been in the news lately with cold nights. People using outside heating stuff inside.
Yes, I’ve heard reports also. People, you need a flue!
heart attack
aneurysm
carbon dioxide/monoxide
dexter
suffocation
animal bite (snake/ spider)
meningitis / sickness
hypothermia
heroin/ drugs
alcohol – suffocation on vomit
alcohol poisoning
AwesomeO said:
Speedy said:
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
Possibly, lack of oxygen from failing lungs slowly puts you to sleep. Deaths from pneumonia are supposedly fairly peaceful. Course you have to get past the gasping for breath stage.
They used to call pneumonia “the old mans friend”
\ and Course you have to get past the gasping for breath stage. You don’t remember this,
concussion
wookiemeister said:
heart attackaneurysm
carbon dioxide/monoxide
dexter
suffocation
animal bite (snake/ spider)
meningitis / sickness
What’s dexter?
Speedy said:
What’s dexter?
TV show about a serial killer.
bob(from black rock) said:
wookiemeister said:
heart attackaneurysm
carbon dioxide/monoxide
dexter
suffocation
animal bite (snake/ spider)
meningitis / sickness
Nob gobbling?
Divine Angel said:
Speedy said:
What’s dexter?
TV show about a serial killer.
hardly peaceful …
Jet engine falling on your house…
Speedy said:
Divine Angel said:
Speedy said:
What’s dexter?
TV show about a serial killer.
hardly peaceful …
furious said:
Jet engine falling on your house…
Plane cabin depressurisation?
Divine Angel said:
Plane cabin depressurisation?
bob(from black rock) said:
AwesomeO said:
Speedy said:
A friend’s mother died yesterday :( She had lung cancer.Mr Speedy saw her on Tuesday or Wednesday and she was sitting up watching TV. He said he had a conversation with her.
The friend texted us to say she had died peacefully in her sleep. Is that even possible?
Possibly, lack of oxygen from failing lungs slowly puts you to sleep. Deaths from pneumonia are supposedly fairly peaceful. Course you have to get past the gasping for breath stage.
They used to call pneumonia “the old mans friend”
\ and Course you have to get past the gasping for breath stage. You don’t remember this,
When I was in a very bad way and on oxygen the struggling for breath was the pits, terrible. You certainly remember if you recover. I think in really bad cases and without oxygen you are so exhausted from attempting to breath the struggle slows down and with it comes a slow diminishing of consciousness as your blood oxygen levels go down.
AwesomeO said:
bob(from black rock) said:
AwesomeO said:Possibly, lack of oxygen from failing lungs slowly puts you to sleep. Deaths from pneumonia are supposedly fairly peaceful. Course you have to get past the gasping for breath stage.
They used to call pneumonia “the old mans friend”
\ and Course you have to get past the gasping for breath stage. You don’t remember this,When I was in a very bad way and on oxygen the struggling for breath was the pits, terrible. You certainly remember if you recover. I think in really bad cases and without oxygen you are so exhausted from attempting to breath the struggle slows down and with it comes a slow diminishing of consciousness as your blood oxygen levels go down.
i felt that when they started an endoscopy while i was still conscious, not a nice feeling not being able to breathe
you could be in a vehicle crash asleep at the wheel
Sleep paralysis is scary enough, never mind not being able to breathe.
Divine Angel said:
Sleep paralysis is scary enough,
Have you experienced SP yourself?
AwesomeO said:
When I was in a very bad way and on oxygen the struggling for breath was the pits, terrible. You certainly remember if you recover. I think in really bad cases and without oxygen you are so exhausted from attempting to breath the struggle slows down and with it comes a slow diminishing of consciousness as your blood oxygen levels go down.
My close friend who died in February couldn’t talk for 2 weeks before she died. They said she had a build up of fluid on her lungs (lymphoma). How is it that she had a horrendous death compared to this other lady?
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Sleep paralysis is scary enough,
Have you experienced SP yourself?
Twice.
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Sleep paralysis is scary enough,
Have you experienced SP yourself?
Twice.
Erghh. Were you still a child when it happened?
Once when I was about 15 and once about 10 years ago.
If it happened when I was a kid, I don’t remember it.
If by SP, you mean Sleep Paralysis, then yes, yes I have…
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Sleep paralysis is scary enough,
Have you experienced SP yourself?
Twice.
On the one and only occasion that I had proper influenza (it really couldn’t have been anything else, it was waaay more than a cold) I remember waking on the stretcher bed in the kitchen, where I was sleeping while unwell because it was near the woodheater and therefore warmer than anywhere else in the house, and being unable to move my legs. I’m not sure if that was sleep paralysis, it was definitely only my legs, or part of the fever I was enduring at the time. But yes, it’s damn scary.
Twice? Amateur…
Divine Angel said:
Once when I was about 15 and once about 10 years ago.If it happened when I was a kid, I don’t remember it.
Interesting. I have a theory about sleep walking and other strange sleep related issues. This does not fit my theory, which has something to do with neurological pathways strengthening as we age.
Having two children, I have discovered that they suffer with some things that I had completely forgotten about eg. Speedy Jnr is only now growing out of his muscular weakness in the mornings. He cannot use a knife to butter bread within 10 minutes of waking, for example.
buffy said:
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:Have you experienced SP yourself?
Twice.
On the one and only occasion that I had proper influenza (it really couldn’t have been anything else, it was waaay more than a cold) I remember waking on the stretcher bed in the kitchen, where I was sleeping while unwell because it was near the woodheater and therefore warmer than anywhere else in the house, and being unable to move my legs. I’m not sure if that was sleep paralysis, it was definitely only my legs, or part of the fever I was enduring at the time. But yes, it’s damn scary.
A lot of seriously people lose consciousness for some time before they die, rousing now and then and drifting off again, presumably asleep.
Bubblecar said:
A lot of seriously people lose consciousness for some time before they die, rousing now and then and drifting off again, presumably asleep.
Um, seriously ill, that is.
Bubblecar said:
Bubblecar said:
A lot of seriously people lose consciousness for some time before they die, rousing now and then and drifting off again, presumably asleep.
Um, seriously ill, that is.
In reading military histories blood loss seems to lead to a peaceful death as well.
I am not sure if it was bullshit chronicles or overwrought individuals but when I read about the American civil war in that near 3000 page history, the southern officers seemed to have dramatic but peaceful deaths with significant death bed statements.
bob(from black rock) said:
It must be a pissabolity.
Yeah..
..my kid brother suffers from Sleep Apnea
he’s forced to sleep wearing a CPAP Mask
attached to a pump that forces air (not oxygen)
down his throat to keep his throat from closing
as he sleeps.
What’s scary is that if the machine fails to operate
properly, …if the one-way flap that allows fresh air
exchange fails, you wind up breathing your own Co2
with no outside access to fresh oxygen.. you’re body
fails to wake you as your oxygen level drops until
brain death (and subsequently “death” death) in your
sleep without ever gaining consciousness.
From what I understand… it’s not the same as suffocating
like a pillow over the face, you are essentially BREATHING
you’re just no longer breathing life-sustaining Oxygen. R.I.P.
I worry a lot about him, since he lives alone since he lost his wife.
I watched my dad die. He was in a sort of coma that had occurred just hours before. I sat in that room and watched him take his last breath. It seemed peaceful. There was a moment of body writhing and struggle.. then relax and his breathing got slower and shallower.. then the hand of his I was holding just lost all life. I could feel him dying. In all it was pretty ‘peaceful’, until a couple of moments after his ‘death’ when he vomited up a whole bunch of gross brown sticky yuckiness. But I don’t think he felt that – to be fair.
he was 1 week away from a heart transplant by Dr Victor Chang…
My mother died in her sleep.
We had only recently put her in a Nursing Home , she had the on set of Alzheimer’s and my father couldn’t look after her.
My Father died suddenly , and within 3 weeks of burying Dad , Mum was dead.
My sister and I saw her that night . She said a few times she was tired and missed my father.
She went to sleep , we left and a few hours later I got the call . She had gone .
No apparent medical reason , just had decided she had lived her life.
The Nurses in the home said they see it all the time , a long term partner dies , people say goodbye and just drop off. I guess you can never say if its a 100% conscious decision.
Not a bad way to go really .
I would like die on my own terms.
Brett
I was with each of my parents when they died and neither of them were conscious for some time before they left us, but whether they were “asleep” or “unconscious”, I don’t know. You don’t want to try to rouse somebody when you know they’re dying, unless it’s strictly necessary.
> My mother died in her sleep.
It’s difficult to say whether my mother did or didn’t. But what I can say is that as she approached death she spent less and less of her time awake. In one respect, being awake was too exhausting, so she would drop off for five minutes and then wake up for half a minute or so, over and over again. Failure of breathing, kidneys (ie. poison), brain (ie high temperature), low blood sugar (ie malnutrition), low blood oxygen can all cause a person to die in their sleep.
My mother died recently in a palliative care hospital, MUCH better than in a nursing home. As she approached death they gave her an antidepressant and a sedative to help ease the transition. They also had a sweet-tasting lip spray that eases both the problem of dry lips and hunger. Palliative care is not about curing diseases. Palliative care is “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-ending illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering.”
mollwollfumble said:
> My mother died in her sleep.It’s difficult to say whether my mother did or didn’t. But what I can say is that as she approached death she spent less and less of her time awake. In one respect, being awake was too exhausting, so she would drop off for five minutes and then wake up for half a minute or so, over and over again. Failure of breathing, kidneys (ie. poison), brain (ie high temperature), low blood sugar (ie malnutrition), low blood oxygen can all cause a person to die in their sleep.
My mother died recently in a palliative care hospital, MUCH better than in a nursing home. As she approached death they gave her an antidepressant and a sedative to help ease the transition. They also had a sweet-tasting lip spray that eases both the problem of dry lips and hunger. Palliative care is not about curing diseases. Palliative care is “an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problem associated with life-ending illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering.”
This is all part of the “Death Industry” the object is keep the dying person “Alive” for as long as possible so they can extract more money from their Estate, the “Death Industry” are against voluntary euthanasia too for this reason.
bob(from black rock) said:
This is all part of the “Death Industry” the object is keep the dying person “Alive” for as long as possible so they can extract more money from their Estate, the “Death Industry” are against voluntary euthanasia too for this reason.
How cynical. I’m sure there are some greedy operators out there, but generally the staff within these organisations are there for the right reasons.
Speedy said:
bob(from black rock) said:
This is all part of the “Death Industry” the object is keep the dying person “Alive” for as long as possible so they can extract more money from their Estate, the “Death Industry” are against voluntary euthanasia too for this reason.
How cynical. I’m sure there are some greedy operators out there, but generally the staff within these organisations are there for the right reasons.
Regulation is established in the name of community but practised in the name of profit. Not an easy balance to keep honest.
Speedy said:
bob(from black rock) said:
This is all part of the “Death Industry” the object is keep the dying person “Alive” for as long as possible so they can extract more money from their Estate, the “Death Industry” are against voluntary euthanasia too for this reason.
How cynical. I’m sure there are some greedy operators out there, but generally the staff within these organisations are there for the right reasons.
Most of the staff are decent compassionate people, there for the right reasons but they are employees and don’t own and run the business.
The wife of a friend of mine was woken by his getting up to go to the toilet at 3.00am. At 6.00 she woke again, turned over and discovered he was dead.
Autopsy showed a small amount of fluid in the lungs, but otherwise he was in sound health.
Neophyte said:
The wife of a friend of mine was woken by his getting up to go to the toilet at 3.00am. At 6.00 she woke again, turned over and discovered he was dead.Autopsy showed a small amount of fluid in the lungs, but otherwise he was in sound health.
He was a very lucky man.
Neophyte said:
Autopsy showed a small amount of fluid in the lungs, but otherwise he was in sound health.
That’s the way to do it. Preferably after a long, healthy and contented life.
Speedy said:
Neophyte said:
Autopsy showed a small amount of fluid in the lungs, but otherwise he was in sound health.
That’s the way to do it. Preferably after a long, healthy and contented life.
He’d just turned 39.
oh dear.
:-)
Neophyte said:
Speedy said:
Neophyte said:
Autopsy showed a small amount of fluid in the lungs, but otherwise he was in sound health.
That’s the way to do it. Preferably after a long, healthy and contented life.
He’d just turned 39.
Depends on what you call long I guess.
bob(from black rock) said:
Speedy said:
bob(from black rock) said:
This is all part of the “Death Industry” the object is keep the dying person “Alive” for as long as possible so they can extract more money from their Estate, the “Death Industry” are against voluntary euthanasia too for this reason.
How cynical. I’m sure there are some greedy operators out there, but generally the staff within these organisations are there for the right reasons.
Most of the staff are decent compassionate people, there for the right reasons but they are employees and don’t own and run the business.
You can always try paying people and companies nothing and see how many line up to do that kind of work…
Neophyte said:
The wife of a friend of mine was woken by his getting up to go to the toilet at 3.00am. At 6.00 she woke again, turned over and discovered he was dead.Autopsy showed a small amount of fluid in the lungs, but otherwise he was in sound health.
Sounds like he had pneumonia (the old mans friend) and he wasn’t given antibiotics probably at his familys request..
Divine Angel said:
Witty Rejoinder said:
Divine Angel said:
Sleep paralysis is scary enough,
Have you experienced SP yourself?
Twice.
I’ve experienced it a few times and its really weird, you can see how people misinterpret it for alien abduction or evil spirits. With me I couldn’t move, was aware of being awake and could sense something in the room with me, was quite unpleasant.
Sounds like he had pneumonia (the old mans friend) and he wasn’t given antibiotics probably at his familys request..
how did you deduce that from the quote? FFS!
JudgeMental said:
Sounds like he had pneumonia (the old mans friend) and he wasn’t given antibiotics probably at his familys request..how did you deduce that from the quote? FFS!
Because I have heard of this many times before.
did you read the post you quoted? if not go back and do so. if you did then reread.
JudgeMental said:
did you read the post you quoted? if not go back and do so. if you did then reread.
OK, went back and re-read the post, what or where are your objections to what I posted?
well it doesn’t sound like the scenario you posted.
A gambler told me it was the best that I could hope for.
dv said:
A gambler told me it was the best that I could hope for.
did you break even somewhere in the darkness?
stumpy_seahorse said:
dv said:
A gambler told me it was the best that I could hope for.
did you break even somewhere in the darkness?
No but I“break wind” frequently.
stumpy_seahorse said:
dv said:
A gambler told me it was the best that I could hope for.
did you break even somewhere in the darkness?
In his final words I found the basis for a popular country and western song.
dv said:
stumpy_seahorse said:
dv said:
A gambler told me it was the best that I could hope for.
did you break even somewhere in the darkness?
In his final words I found the basis for a popular country and western song.
i reckon you did him in during the night for drinking the last of your whiskey and bumming your last cigarette…
dv said:
stumpy_seahorse said:
dv said:
A gambler told me it was the best that I could hope for.
did you break even somewhere in the darkness?
In his final words I found the basis for a popular country and western song.
At least the Gatlin brothers didn’t show up
Neophyte said:
dv said:
stumpy_seahorse said:did you break even somewhere in the darkness?
In his final words I found the basis for a popular country and western song.
At least the Gatlin brothers didn’t show up
they had car trouble…
Like Arts I too watched a parent die. My Mum hadn’t been ‘awake’ for around about 48 hours (hard to remember) but yes it appeared to be a peaceful passing. Just breathing that became shallower and shallower until no more (a small spit of white mucus only) and that was it..
A very dear dear friend not long after that passed in his sleep and he suffered Sleep Apnea. Went for an afternoon nap (didn’t put the machine on) and that was it… I still reckon he is somewhere scratching his head saying “what the?…”
Not a bad way to go.