How do you know if you're dead dead?? 🤔🥴💀

I agree Rachifagran. Poppyred started this thread and can express herself as she thinks fit, as others do. Her posts don’t seem callous to me. Those who feel uncomfortable need not read it.

I, too, have a fear of that and I’m relieved that it’s not just me ( it’s not the sort of thing that you slip into general conversation). There is an added reason but I can’t really write it on an open forum.

To be fair Poppy has the right to post what she wants, and some posts have been a bit harsh.
I have always had a fear of being in a coffin and I am not dead. Its a irrational fear that I have and I am glad that Poppyred posted, I am sorry for people who have lost loved ones, but I do not think any hurt was intended. It has shown me I am not alone with this irrational fear.

Poppyred

After reading the Anaesthetic thread, this reminded me of my worst fear…..I have this dread of being in my coffin and still being aware of what’s happening. I don’t mean being pronounced dead by mistake…..

To go back to OP
Why would you be in your coffin if you hadn't been pronounced dead?
And if you had not been pronounced dead by mistake presumably you would be dead so how would you know anything at all?

Probably saw something nasty in the woodshed

They built a new housing estate in the site of a local hospital (which had been built on the site of a workhouse). One night one of the night watchmen ran screaming to the farm that was across the road from it. I never did get to know what he had seen.

I wish id not seen this thread.its morbid.And panic-making

without doubt, haunted. I can’t say what happened there but I will only say that I would not have bought one of the properties built on the site of the mortuary. The haunting continued after redevelopment.

I bought a disused hospital site for a developer. The old mortuary was, without d

I recall that when Popes died the Chamberlain had to tap them on the head three times to confirm death. I think they've stopped doing that now.

I rarely talk about this tbh, but couldn't resist ...
Many years ago I had an office in a disused wing of a local hospital and I often worked late after colleagues had gone home. One evening (after months of strange things happening) my diary was thrown on the floor while I was typing away in a different room, and a heavy metal storage cupboard shook against the wall when I went to see what the noise was, so I decided to ask a local medium to visit. When she arrived on a Saturday morning she immediately said 'this place is busy'!! I didn't mention why I had asked her to come and left her to it. Around 30 minutes later she told me that a woman's face appeared in front of her and said ... "I didn't want to die here, they covered me up before she was dead!"

Thank you Marydoll. Unfortunately RosiesMaw is indeed but one of us who has been recently bereaved, not to mention those who know bereavement is not far away. I hope Poppyred will reflect on that,

Well that’s cheered me up ! Cheers for that !🤨

Germanshepherdsmum

Give it a rest Poppyred. You’ve caused enough heartache already.

I am stunned by your attitude Poppyred.

There have been a few members in the last few days, who have lost loved ones and you have shown a lack of sensitivity and compassion by your responses.

Give it a rest Poppyred. You’ve caused enough heartache already.

Don’t they put us in a freezer? that will kills us surely. I don’t want embalming but now I might asked to be embalmed, as the mortician cuts into an artery to pump the stuff round, so mortician must know if we are dead 😔 doesn't bare thinking about

There you go Maw put people in their place….you know best. How dare people put their views and beliefs (rightly or wrongly) on a public forum and then telling them to grow up.🙄🙄🙄.

Taking yourself a little too seriously today RosiesMaw ?? If we want to talk about it, we will

Feel free Poppyred to talk about it as much as you want - only get your facts right . It’s not the subject I find distasteful but the depth of ignorance.

There certainly were cases in the past where a deep coma might have been mistaken for death but we have modern medicine, modern technology and can tell the difference
You’ll be worrying about organs being harvested for transplant next and no doubt somebody will have a fit of the vapours at the thought that a patient who is brain dead ‘s body being kept functioning on machines until the organs can be removed.
Yes I’ve seen that too. And the care lavished by the nursing staff on the patient is truly touching. But they are beyond recovery in any sense of the word.
All I am taking seriously is the real ignorance eg about vein cutting , being buried alive or embalming . (Incidentally not common practice in this country but very much so in others.)
I’m not bothered by people joking about a fear of waking up in the crem or being buried alive - as long as it is only a joke.
But some people really seem to be taking it seriously and I have never read such a load of embarrassingly ill-informed and superstitious tosh as I have seen on this thread.

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Spinnaker

Better make sure that it's always fully charged!

And don't have a metal lined coffin as there wouldn't be any reception!
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My Mums older sister (no longer with us) told a story of when she had her heart attack of being on a table in the morgue and just being able to move a little finger enough for someone to notice. She then got a pacemaker and lived many years after up to 92 years old.

Germanshepherdsmum

Poppyred

Germanshepherdsmum

RosiesMaw has very good reason for how she feels today Poppyred. Not only is she widowed and the mother of a baby who died soon after birth, she has suffered two bereavements in the last week.

Should she be following this thread then? Probably not.

How very compassionate you are.

I’m not going to argue with you. We have all lost people that we love and miss very, very much. This is NOT what this chat is about.

😱😱😱

MissInterpreted

Beau1958

I can’t believe what I’m reading g here of course you are going to be dead the mortuary embalms the body where you blood is replaced with fluid !!

Embalming is not carried out as a matter of routine here in the UK - only when requested by the family of the deceased, I believe.

That is my understanding - embalming isn’t a routine procedure.

Poppyred

Germanshepherdsmum

RosiesMaw has very good reason for how she feels today Poppyred. Not only is she widowed and the mother of a baby who died soon after birth, she has suffered two bereavements in the last week.

Should she be following this thread then? Probably not.

How very compassionate you are.

I think I read somewhere it happened in Victorian times due to laudanum and opium intake - maybe got that wrong but I don’t think it happens much at all now a days - hopefully