26 Stories Of How It Actually Feels Being Dead - From People Who Were Brought Back To Life

Even though we humans are different from each other, we all have one thing in common – the fact that one day our lives will end. Basically, death is the only thing that every single one of us has to experience. Kind of a grim thing to bring up now, isn’t it? Well, it doesn’t change the fact that it is true. 

Usually, death is a final moment of one’s life, so it’s normal to wonder what it feels like. While dead people can’t tell stories, it’s rather hard to find out this truth. Unless you talk to a person who has died, but was brought back – they definitely have some idea about it. 

Today’s list is full of such testimonies. All of them came from a Reddit thread under the question “People that have died and been brought back, what did you see and feel?” Nearly 1.5K people have shared their stories there, so we decided to collect the most intriguing ones and make this list to satisfy your curiosity. 

And, oh boy, these stories are interesting. Makes us wonder whether our death will be similar to any of these and what we will experience beyond it, doesn’t it? 

Well, probably all of us, at least at some point in our lives, have thought about what waits for us in the afterlife. Some say there’s nothing, just pitch black, and that’s it – death is the final of our essence. 

Others, like Christians, believe in Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory, and that we all will be assigned to one of these places depending on what kind of lives we lead on Earth.

Other religions, like Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Sikhism, explain the afterlife in terms of reincarnation. Basically, after our life ends, we start a new one in a different physical form or body. Or in other words, the soul is immortal, it only changes its forms from time to time. 

The TV show The Good Place provided its version of the afterlife, one that’s heavily based on philosophy. Since we don’t want to spoil the show too much, we’re not going to talk about it in detail (you should go watch it yourself, it’s on Netflix and it’s great!). 

Well, what we’re going to mention is that the show starts with the idea that people are divided into the Good Place and the Bad Place, depending on their actions on Earth, an idea that’s eerily similar to Heaven and Hell. Throughout the show, this idea and its pros and cons are explored in a way that makes you rethink the way you lead your life and the way you should do it.

We all should strive to lead our lives the best we can, or, as it was said in The Good Place, “be the best versions of ourselves”. After all, life will end one day, and who knows – maybe the afterlife really might send us to some kind of a bad place if we weren’t virtuous in our time here.