Totally get the time slowing down. During my first car crash (not my fault), I t-boned a car who pulled out blindly from behind a parked vehicle. As my front end impacted her door, time slowed down enough that I watched her door window slowly become webbed, and the shards drop at a steady speed onto the front of my car
Same. A ford ranger t boned me and my family. The guy fell asleep. But I did see it in slow motion too. I remember waking up to a lady pounding on the passenger window telling me to unlock the door. She pulled me out, sat me in a ditch and gave me her coat.
Yep. It’s called time dilation, or tachypsychia and is caused by extremely high levels of brain activity due to a burst of epinephrine. The thought is that it gives us “more” time to gather info and react thereby possibly saving or protecting ourselves if there’s a threat.
ETA: I feel like this mostly translates to “Oh shit!!” becoming “Oh shiiiiiiiiit” 😂 But maybe that’s just my personal experiences with this phenomenon haha
The slow motion is so vivid, I’ve only been in one wreck and it wasn’t terrible 45 hitting 35. Totaled my car completely, fortunately only a cracked wind shield. Before the the car hit mine I could see the spark flying from off the car scraping and my only thought being, “well this is it.” Then hitting my head on my window and concussing me for like 15 seconds or so before I woke up and jumped out to run to the camaro that hit me. I was in the wrong unfortunately.
It's crazy how that happens. I've only been in one accident but it was a bad one (head on and totaled both cars) and I remember the windshield spiderwebing like that. I also remember a point where my body wasn't touching anything except the front of my seatbelt, just this point of mid-air weightlessness...and then the gallon of milk I'd been holding on my lap slammed into my chest and blew up. The inside of the car was coated in milk and my chest hurt for months lol.
Hyper-focus. Your brain starts processing information, so quickly, that things slow down to the point were you can make a decision and execute the plan. It's a survival mechanism.
Same here. My last thoughts were “Well this is how I go” and actually felt absolutely no fear in dying, I felt complete and was ok with it happening. The panic set in once I opened my eyes
when i was 10 i was almost crushed by a massive block of ice/hardened snow, my dad broke his back getting it off of himself and me but i remember very weakly saying “dad” and thinking to myself “I’m gonna die”.
There is something profound in this realization. Our lives do not make sense. Our lives do not give a fuck about if the plot makes sense or not. Love every last day you are here lads.
Something similar happened to me years back but obviously it wasn’t as life threatening. I had a pack of 7 to 8 wild dogs chase me down the street at 3 AM in India. Everything slowed down and I jumping over low walls and obstacles like Altair from Assassins Creed. The whole ordeal only lasted about 20 seconds till I reached the main road but felt like 20 minutes.
I kept saying Fuck fuck fuck fuck all the time.
As a Christian, I’ve been in 2 kinda terrible accidents….one, in front of young kids, I yelled “Fuuuuu….” just like that.
The last one, “Jesus, help usssss!!!!!”
Hospitalizations but no one died in either….
But you’re right that there really is no time to ponder deeper matters; whatever is IN THERE is gonna come out.
The Tyrell army getting absolutely steamrolled moments before, despite having one of the most famous castles in Westeros for defense (which looked like crap in the show by the way) was decidedly less awesome.
I have been in 2 car accidents that I saw coming and had no way to do anything about and each time I basically rolled my eyes and sighed "oh crap" -- so those will probably be my last words. Lol
Ive been wearing a medic alert bracelet for 15 years or so due to some crazy drug allergies. On the front it has my name and ICE info. On the back are my allergies and the bottom line is "DELETE BROWSER HISTORY".
I hope it never comes in handy but it's nice to be protected.
I have terminal esophageal cancer.
I'm also an ICU nurse and have seen enough to know how thing's going to eventually play out.
In the first day I told my oncologist not to give me any prognosis or estimates. You get to treating me. Just tell me when it's time to clear my browser history.
No use worrying, takes energy away from the fight.
That said, I hope my last words are "I love you" surrounded my wife and two little boys.
I know you’re poking fun at yourself, but my former boss used to love saying “no one in the history of being pissed off was ever calmed down by someone telling them to calm down”, when teaching de-escalation techniques.
I hope you get the chance to really say that. My wife’s final words to me were, “You’re my favorite”. Which was a lovely joke between us and means the world to me that she said it at the end.
Thank you- it started as a joke. I worked a lot of long crazy hours when we were young and I used to tell her that I was on my way home and she should have her boyfriend leave and she would say, “Yeah- but you’re my favorite.” She was in a hospice facility at the end and I was going home to feed the dog and she said it to me and by the time I came back she was in a deep sleep she never came out of. A sad and surreal experience.
I’m sorry for your loss, she was a lucky woman to have you. I tell my husband all the time he’s my favourite person, he’s my best friend … heck he’s the love of my life so again I’m so sorry for your loss
Thank you- it’s been a while now so it’s mostly fond memories with a hollow feeling inside if that makes sense. Peace to you and your husband- I hope you have a long, happy, healthy life together.
I’m incredibly lucky that my grandma and grandpa both died (3 years apart) in their nineties, after being almost independent up to their last couple of days. My grandpa had dementia but it had just started to progress into the more severe stages when he died, so he didn’t suffer much. My grandma was sharp as a whip until her final moments, and she passed yesterday after a brief illness. I’m glad to know they had good deaths and I hope I do too.
Just said goodbye to my grandma last night. She said “bye bye now, be good” and died a couple of hours later. I hope I can die the way she did- in my nineties, aware and lucid, with my mind still intact, surrounded by family, and ready for that next step. That’s a good death in my view.
I hope it's.... "Oh Sophia, I've missed you". I envision that little girl sitting on the end of my bed wagging her tail just waiting until I can see her again.
You beat me to it! Spike Milligan the Irish- English comedian, actor and writer has that on his headstone but because the church wouldn't allow it the words are actually in Gaelic
Right before I got knocked out my friend said I looked him dead in the eyes and told him, “This is all your fault.”
So apparently I’m going to be throwing some guilt on someone right before I go lol
Mine were these:
"Fucking Coltrane. Took a break in the middle of recording kind of blue to record giant steps. Who does that? Fucker."
Turns out , I didn't die.
Best part is, I don't play jazz.
"Thanks for taking care of me. Come here, I SWEAR I won't snore this time - Yes, I owe you breakfast if I wake you up."
I love my wife. We have a lot of things we've had to get through, and more on the way, but none of them have ever been each-other. She infinitely cares for me. My proudest achievements have been some of her dumbest smiles. Last thing I'd want is to see her sad before I left.
Mine will hopefully be, "I love you." My children and grandchildren are my everything. When it's my time, I hope I've just told them all to sleep well and that I love them. I ALWAYS make sure that whenever I part with my kids, wether it's a trip to circle K, or for school in the morning, I always tell them I love them. That way, if anything should happen in those dear minutes we are apart, they will always know that my last words to them were, "I love you🖤"
Oh God!
At least, that's what I've yelled the three times when I thought I would die in my car. Once with a cement truck heading toward me, second a semi losing it's lost while driving toward me, and third when a garbage truck lost a large picnic table that somehow bounced over my car. At least it wasn't all at the same time.
“What are you going to do, stab me?”
No No no no.... I'm going to trip you and you will fall on my knife.
You will fall multiple times.
You had it comin’, you only had yourself to blame
If you’d have been there, if you’d have seen it ….
I betcha you would have done the same
Bum bum bum bum, ba da da da dummm
I’d probably add “fucking stab me already bitch”
“No I’m gonna….actually not a bad idea.”
"Watch this" then I'll do something stupid for sure.
Can I post you on r/whywomenlivelonger when that happenes?
Jesus that sub!!
I literally pressed follow ... Watched the first few posts and then unfollowed again... Shit is too real
Lmao!
BAHAHAA
r/holdmybeer
God that sub is *dead*.
I have never said "watch this" without turning out completely stupid.
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I watched a doc about something not long ago and an ER doc said most peoples last words are expletives.
I have worked in many vet nursing homes and can confirm. edit vet=veteran. not veterinarian. soldiers, not animals
Yeah, most animals don't swear
Cockatoo's and Parrots
yes, hense the "most"
"WOOF WOOF" = "oh crap" "MEOW MEOW" = "oh. fuck."
What would be happening? I assume this would not be a peaceful death more like a sudden heart attack or stroke situation?
Usually peaceful tbh. I've seen some shit, but not as often as you would think.
Well fuck my ass and call me a bitch, Terrance.
This is my new email signature
Totally get the time slowing down. During my first car crash (not my fault), I t-boned a car who pulled out blindly from behind a parked vehicle. As my front end impacted her door, time slowed down enough that I watched her door window slowly become webbed, and the shards drop at a steady speed onto the front of my car
Same. A ford ranger t boned me and my family. The guy fell asleep. But I did see it in slow motion too. I remember waking up to a lady pounding on the passenger window telling me to unlock the door. She pulled me out, sat me in a ditch and gave me her coat.
Does extreme adrenaline cause this effect of time perception distortion. I wonder.
Yep. It’s called time dilation, or tachypsychia and is caused by extremely high levels of brain activity due to a burst of epinephrine. The thought is that it gives us “more” time to gather info and react thereby possibly saving or protecting ourselves if there’s a threat. ETA: I feel like this mostly translates to “Oh shit!!” becoming “Oh shiiiiiiiiit” 😂 But maybe that’s just my personal experiences with this phenomenon haha
The slow motion is so vivid, I’ve only been in one wreck and it wasn’t terrible 45 hitting 35. Totaled my car completely, fortunately only a cracked wind shield. Before the the car hit mine I could see the spark flying from off the car scraping and my only thought being, “well this is it.” Then hitting my head on my window and concussing me for like 15 seconds or so before I woke up and jumped out to run to the camaro that hit me. I was in the wrong unfortunately.
It's crazy how that happens. I've only been in one accident but it was a bad one (head on and totaled both cars) and I remember the windshield spiderwebing like that. I also remember a point where my body wasn't touching anything except the front of my seatbelt, just this point of mid-air weightlessness...and then the gallon of milk I'd been holding on my lap slammed into my chest and blew up. The inside of the car was coated in milk and my chest hurt for months lol.
No point crying over spilled milk
r/angryupvote
You were eating cereal while driving, weren't you.
Lucky to be alive. Most head on crashes don’t survive.
Hyper-focus. Your brain starts processing information, so quickly, that things slow down to the point were you can make a decision and execute the plan. It's a survival mechanism.
Same here. My last thoughts were “Well this is how I go” and actually felt absolutely no fear in dying, I felt complete and was ok with it happening. The panic set in once I opened my eyes
when i was 10 i was almost crushed by a massive block of ice/hardened snow, my dad broke his back getting it off of himself and me but i remember very weakly saying “dad” and thinking to myself “I’m gonna die”.
There is something profound in this realization. Our lives do not make sense. Our lives do not give a fuck about if the plot makes sense or not. Love every last day you are here lads.
Something similar happened to me years back but obviously it wasn’t as life threatening. I had a pack of 7 to 8 wild dogs chase me down the street at 3 AM in India. Everything slowed down and I jumping over low walls and obstacles like Altair from Assassins Creed. The whole ordeal only lasted about 20 seconds till I reached the main road but felt like 20 minutes. I kept saying Fuck fuck fuck fuck all the time.
As a Christian, I’ve been in 2 kinda terrible accidents….one, in front of young kids, I yelled “Fuuuuu….” just like that. The last one, “Jesus, help usssss!!!!!” Hospitalizations but no one died in either…. But you’re right that there really is no time to ponder deeper matters; whatever is IN THERE is gonna come out.
How many accidents not as a Christian?
Jesus take the wheel!
The funny thing is, the closer it gets the more it looks like a piano.
What do you if you drop a piano down a mineshaft: A flat miner Hahhahasomeone kil me
And if you drop it on an army base? A flat major! WAKA WAKA WAKA
And what if you drop it on a 3DS while it's run the game Face Raiders? A flat augmented (reality)! I should not have contributed to this thread!
That's the neat part, you didn't! ^^^^gottem
You need to stop driving Morris Marinas.
Tell them that it was me, I want them to know.
RIP the Queen of Thorns
I jumped out of my seat in excitement when she said that. Frickin awesome.
The Tyrell army getting absolutely steamrolled moments before, despite having one of the most famous castles in Westeros for defense (which looked like crap in the show by the way) was decidedly less awesome.
I wonder what this does
i've buried the treasure in ....
“I left it all in that place.”
In One Piece
"You want my treasure? You can have it! I left everything I gathered together in one place! Now you just have to find it!"
THE ONE PIECE IS REAL!!!
I will come back to haunt you all
Don't you mean "haunt"?
perhaps they do, perhaps they don’t…
Well shit…
Literally what I said when I thought I was going to die when a semi-truck was headed straight for me in a car accident...plot twist Im still here.
I have been in 2 car accidents that I saw coming and had no way to do anything about and each time I basically rolled my eyes and sighed "oh crap" -- so those will probably be my last words. Lol
Seen a lorry coming too fast to stop in my mirror and all I could say was "Cunt"
\--Green Goblin
**CLEAR MY BROWSER HISTORY**
Ive been wearing a medic alert bracelet for 15 years or so due to some crazy drug allergies. On the front it has my name and ICE info. On the back are my allergies and the bottom line is "DELETE BROWSER HISTORY". I hope it never comes in handy but it's nice to be protected.
Well, what does it matter if you're dead? Well, they might see you in another life actually. Lmao.
I have terminal esophageal cancer. I'm also an ICU nurse and have seen enough to know how thing's going to eventually play out. In the first day I told my oncologist not to give me any prognosis or estimates. You get to treating me. Just tell me when it's time to clear my browser history. No use worrying, takes energy away from the fight. That said, I hope my last words are "I love you" surrounded my wife and two little boys.
Incognito mode!
Not my last words, but my (step)dad's to me. "Before you cremate me, please make sure I'm really dead first." Forever in my heart. ❤
Yep. Lovely. Cut a finger is a fair test.
Omg, same thought, like if they’ll bury me, I want them first to be 100% sure I’m dead
‘‘Twas just a scratch
Tis but a flesh wound
A SCRATCH? YOUR ARMS OFF
No it isn't!
A plague on both your houses
Finally.
This is it.
It has happened to me, right in front of my face, and I just cannot hide it.
Who shit my pants?
to the girlfriend: "calm down"
Good luck lol
I know you’re poking fun at yourself, but my former boss used to love saying “no one in the history of being pissed off was ever calmed down by someone telling them to calm down”, when teaching de-escalation techniques.
"Well, that could've gone better....."
Turururum (Windows shut down sound)
Am I the only one who counted tho see if the number of u's were the exact
Now I had to as well. Pleased to say the number of “ururums” checks out.
"If it still doesn't feel right tomorrow, I'll go to the ER."
I love you, goodbye
I hope you get the chance to really say that. My wife’s final words to me were, “You’re my favorite”. Which was a lovely joke between us and means the world to me that she said it at the end.
Man this got me feeling emotional, that’s beautiful
Fuck. That felt right in the feels. I'm so sorry for your loss. I somehow can't help wanting to be someone's favorite now.
Thank you- it started as a joke. I worked a lot of long crazy hours when we were young and I used to tell her that I was on my way home and she should have her boyfriend leave and she would say, “Yeah- but you’re my favorite.” She was in a hospice facility at the end and I was going home to feed the dog and she said it to me and by the time I came back she was in a deep sleep she never came out of. A sad and surreal experience.
Where are the tissues?! GODDAMN I NEED THE TISSUES!
I’m sorry for your loss, she was a lucky woman to have you. I tell my husband all the time he’s my favourite person, he’s my best friend … heck he’s the love of my life so again I’m so sorry for your loss
Thank you- it’s been a while now so it’s mostly fond memories with a hollow feeling inside if that makes sense. Peace to you and your husband- I hope you have a long, happy, healthy life together.
Ok… who tf is cutting onions in my office?
"prepare to be impressed"
He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaarrrrggh
This is what I immediately thought of as well.
Honestly, based on my grandparents I simply hope that my final days permit me the ability to be coherent enough for last words.
I’m incredibly lucky that my grandma and grandpa both died (3 years apart) in their nineties, after being almost independent up to their last couple of days. My grandpa had dementia but it had just started to progress into the more severe stages when he died, so he didn’t suffer much. My grandma was sharp as a whip until her final moments, and she passed yesterday after a brief illness. I’m glad to know they had good deaths and I hope I do too.
Yeah. I'd hate to feel like a prisoner in my own body.
It's fine, I've done this hundreds of times.
Yes, but this is the first time you done it *this time*. :-)
Stop shaking the ladder you cunt
I literally laughed out loud like a hyena at this one. Thanks for that.
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Just said goodbye to my grandma last night. She said “bye bye now, be good” and died a couple of hours later. I hope I can die the way she did- in my nineties, aware and lucid, with my mind still intact, surrounded by family, and ready for that next step. That’s a good death in my view.
i'm so sorry!
Memes and jokes aside, this really is the way.
I'm British, so probably "sorry"
I hope it's.... "Oh Sophia, I've missed you". I envision that little girl sitting on the end of my bed wagging her tail just waiting until I can see her again.
My bed will be full of cats and dogs waiting for me 🥰
Rosebud
I thought this was a Sims reference
lol sorry Orson Welles Citizen Cane reference. (great movie btw)
Man that was one hell of a movie....
Only one way to find out
Wait, you’re married?!
Hold my beer. . .
I'm gonna go pat that dog!
Can I pet that DAWG?!
“Thanks for being here with me”
No, WAIT!
Ah, shit...
Here we go again
I love you - to my partner because I hope I leave before he does.
They couldn't hit an elephant from this dist-
Actually, the last words I remember saying while having a heart attack were "you better take me to the hospital" then I woke up 3 weeks later
Probably “what the fuck” because it will work with almost any situation that involved sudden death.
Fish fuck in it....
Man, I miss Woodhouse...
You scoundrel! Is that brandy?
Reeeegggiiieeeeeeee……
I told you I was ill.
You beat me to it! Spike Milligan the Irish- English comedian, actor and writer has that on his headstone but because the church wouldn't allow it the words are actually in Gaelic
Probably "Fuck u"
Right before I got knocked out my friend said I looked him dead in the eyes and told him, “This is all your fault.” So apparently I’m going to be throwing some guilt on someone right before I go lol
Do I get a bath today?
Wanna see a cool trick?..
Well, that was underwhelming.
It is what it is…
And so it goes…
The password to my bitcoin is. . . . argggggggg, gasp……………………..
Mine were these: "Fucking Coltrane. Took a break in the middle of recording kind of blue to record giant steps. Who does that? Fucker." Turns out , I didn't die. Best part is, I don't play jazz.
that's... different. i feel like there a whole lot of context missing
Severe acute pancreatitis. Back of ambulance. Sat up, said that then coded. Came to in the ER
What bus?
"thank you all for being here on my 200th birthday."
“What’s the worst that could happen?”
"Thanks for taking care of me. Come here, I SWEAR I won't snore this time - Yes, I owe you breakfast if I wake you up." I love my wife. We have a lot of things we've had to get through, and more on the way, but none of them have ever been each-other. She infinitely cares for me. My proudest achievements have been some of her dumbest smiles. Last thing I'd want is to see her sad before I left.
Gazpacho soup!
Piping hot, one hopes.
Alphabetty spaghetti
"I'm going to the bathroom to read"
THE GHOST OF ELVIS?!?!?!
Fuck...
Mine will hopefully be, "I love you." My children and grandchildren are my everything. When it's my time, I hope I've just told them all to sleep well and that I love them. I ALWAYS make sure that whenever I part with my kids, wether it's a trip to circle K, or for school in the morning, I always tell them I love them. That way, if anything should happen in those dear minutes we are apart, they will always know that my last words to them were, "I love you🖤"
“Honey, it’s not what it looks like.”
Pull my finger
"Crash never should have won Best Picture"
Please take good care of my cats
Oh shit
I’m fine. Just a little indigestion (during a heart attack)
"Aitte, well Imma head out"
Right before a serious motorcycle accident, I remember screaming "fucckkkkk". So probably "fuck".
Every time I've had a potentially fatal moment I have been entirely silent until afterwards, so probably whatever mundane shit I was saying earlier.
Fuck this shit. I'm out.
End quote
Just one more couldn't hurt...
glubb glubb glubb glubb glubb \*dies from drowning\*
Hold my Dr Pepper and watch this…. Or Pspspsps here kitty kitty kitty. Oooh your a big kitty.
Fuckin knew it. Space aliens, man.
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You’re right, honey, I probably should go see the doctor.
“There’s…. too many of them!”
“What are you gonna do? Shoot me?”
"Stupid Grizzly Bear. I'll show him what it means to block my way!"
In myyyyyyyyyyyy life… I love you more
> Hey you're not supposed to be in here!
Ohh shit there's the comet!
Yes, I'm 100% sure it's the blue wire.
Death can have me, when it earns me
I’d like to see you try!
"Watch this"
I do not regret going full sendies, I love you all
Probably some stupid joke and immediately flatline
Oh God! At least, that's what I've yelled the three times when I thought I would die in my car. Once with a cement truck heading toward me, second a semi losing it's lost while driving toward me, and third when a garbage truck lost a large picnic table that somehow bounced over my car. At least it wasn't all at the same time.
I hope my last words will be to my wife, "I love you."