It's not over when you might think.

Alf Taylor

Alf Taylor

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I don't want to get too morbid talking about the afterlife but, if my experience alleviates any concern for anybody, it's worth my time to write this. This isn't an attempt to sell books but those who have read mine, know about this, in detail.
Short version...I drowned at on a florida beach when I was four. I remember the water, the seaweed and the intense fear. Then I remember the peaceful feeling as I watched the event from overhead. When the lifeguard gave up and actually covered me up my older brother grabbed me and beat on my back until something popped out of me, thereby causing a lot of suckers in the 60s and 70s go home broke.
Never fear. Alfie
 
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I died too. I think the closest explanation I have read to describe it is that it is like going to sleep after a really long, hard day. I don't want to die, I have many things that I still want to do and people to see. However, I have absolutely no fear of dieing again.
 
Alf Taylor said:
I don't want to get too morbid talking about the afterlife but, if my experience alleviates any concern for anybody, it's worth my time to write this. This isn't an attempt to sell books but those who have read mine, know about this, in detail.
Short version...I drowned at on a florida beach when I was four. I remember the water, the seaweed and the intense fear. Then I remember the peaceful feeling as I watched the event from overhead. When the lifeguard gave up and actually covered me up my older brother grabbed me and beat on my back until something popped out of me, thereby causing a lot of suckers in the 60s and 70s go home broke.
Never fear. Alfie
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Maybe you're the ghost I play all the time!:)
 
Alf Taylor said:
I don't want to get too morbid talking about the afterlife but, if my experience alleviates any concern for anybody, it's worth my time to write this. This isn't an attempt to sell books but those who have read mine, know about this, in detail.
Short version...I drowned at on a florida beach when I was four. I remember the water, the seaweed and the intense fear. Then I remember the peaceful feeling as I watched the event from overhead. When the lifeguard gave up and actually covered me up my older brother grabbed me and beat on my back until something popped out of me, thereby causing a lot of suckers in the 60s and 70s go home broke.
Never fear. Alfie
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Glad you made it.
 
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It's over when it's over.
You guys only thought you were dead. The problem, of couse, is a non-functioning mind (brain) can't form a thought (it's dead). Since you were able to form a thought, you were alive.
You may have come close to being dead, but you didn't quite go all the way. :smile:
 
I respectufully don't agree, sir

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It's over when it's over.
You guys only thought you were dead. The problem, of couse, is a non-functioning mind (brain) can't form a thought (it's dead). Since you were able to form a thought, you were alive.
You may have come close to being dead, but you didn't quite go all the way. :smile:
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ALL of Eddie Taylor's vital signs stopped for eighteen minutes under the care of four doctors. He was "clinically dead". When he returned he could remember everything that happened...including almost everything in his life. He lived another ten or fifteen years.
If you think "it's over when it's over" for you it, quite possibly, is.
Keep it "To each his own". Alfie
 
over when its over

If I am there Its over.........................................

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Don't fear the Reaper.

Funny Alf. I just about drowned when I was young. I can remember laying in the water looking up. My Mom saved me. But most likely why I have never cared much for being around water since. I also had reoccurring dreams of the dock and area in later years.

I later joined the Naval Cadets. I thought this was a stupid move cause chances of myself ever entering the Canadian Navy would be fairly slim to none.

Kept my feet on solid ground ever since.
 
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Alf Taylor said:
ALL of Eddie Taylor's vital signs stopped for eighteen minutes under the care of four doctors. He was "clinically dead". When he returned he could remember everything that happened...including almost everything in his life. He lived another ten or fifteen years.
If you think "it's over when it's over" for you it, quite possibly, is.
Keep it "To each his own". Alfie
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No problem until you hear the fat lady sing.
 
Closest I've come to dying was having a 20 second sneezing fit in 89, so I have no experience of it.

My sister has though. An asthma attack stopped her pulse for nearly 5 minutes. She vividly remembers things that happened when her pulse stopped. Sentences that were said when no pulse was found, she remembers. She said it wasn't an out of body experience or anything like that, more like she felt awake and she was telling everyone to stop panicking, she's ok. When in actual fact she was 'dead'. She didn't believe anyone who told her after that she died. She thought she was concious the entire time.

Its weird how the mind works sometimes, and no one will ever fully understand it.
 
Tramp Steamer said:
It's over when it's over.
You guys only thought you were dead. The problem, of couse, is a non-functioning mind (brain) can't form a thought (it's dead). Since you were able to form a thought, you were alive.
You may have come close to being dead, but you didn't quite go all the way. :smile:
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I keep trying but I still can't find the joke or the pun in this response! Very frustrating. Maybe I'm too used to your usual replies. :)
 
PaulieB said:
I keep trying but I still can't find the joke or the pun in this response! Very frustrating. Maybe I'm too used to your usual replies. :)
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I was serious as a heart attack (no pun intended).
When your brain shows a flatline EEG, you're deader than a hammer, no matter what Alf says. :)
 
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