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Knife Nuts [3]
JAN 27, 2005 11:49 AM
JAN 27, 2005 11:51 AM
not_tom said:
you're envious of the medical system in north carolina!
if i'm ever in an accident i hope that i can speak up to say "i'm not dead, yet!"
"I feel happy. I think I'll go for a walk"
JAN 27, 2005 11:51 AM
JAN 27, 2005 11:56 AM
FallFromGrace said:
Also, remember if you have the "organ donor" label on your Driver's licence the EMT's are instructed to NOT try and save you because people need them kidneys 
What? Since when? I can't imagine anyone who spends their time saving lives not saving you so they can save somebody else.... Isn't that a violation of the AMA's code of ethics?
Also, when I first read this thread title, I couldn't help but notice the Princess Bride reference (I think I'll watch it right now...).
JAN 27, 2005 12:05 PM
I saw an episode on HBO's Autopsy that was similar to this. A woman would "drop dead" and suddenly awake hours later, usually once she was at the morgue. It happened a couple of times. Wish I could remember all the details... 
[Edited on Jan 27, 2005 by Geraldine]
JAN 27, 2005 12:27 PM
scott said:
it wasn't monty python, it was the princess bride...
i wonder if the medical examiner heard "to blathe..." or "true love" heh...
Thank you! I was about to have a stroke until I could see if someone else ponted that out....
JAN 28, 2005 12:44 AM
alpo
Portland, OR
OLD SKOOL
JAN 28, 2005 01:54 AM
Sorcha said:
Neyrissa said:
Hell, it happens. People can stop breathing and then start again.
It happens! Not saying it's a good thing, but we're only human! Remember the bells they used to put on the graves? There was a reason for it...and more than one bell ended up ringing!
Yes! The whole "saved by the bell" origin. 
JAN 28, 2005 02:03 AM
datsun said:
FallFromGrace said:
Also, remember if you have the "organ donor" label on your Driver's licence the EMT's are instructed to NOT try and save you because people need them kidneys
What? Since when? I can't imagine anyone who spends their time saving lives not saving you so they can save somebody else.... Isn't that a violation of the AMA's code of ethics?
I'm fairly confident that FallFromGrace was being facetious.
Ella_1
HOPEFUL
Australia
JAN 28, 2005 02:15 AM
JAN 28, 2005 02:18 AM
JAN 28, 2005 02:22 AM
Sorcha said:
Neyrissa said:
Hell, it happens. People can stop breathing and then start again.
It happens! Not saying it's a good thing, but we're only human! Remember the bells they used to put on the graves? There was a reason for it...and more than one bell ended up ringing!
Yes! The whole "saved by the bell" origin. I love you for knowing that.
I've also heard of cases in which a person appears dead on all counts but just "wakes up" a half-hour, hour, or even day later. Scary stuff.
My great grandma did that. She was pronounced dead when she was in her 70's. Then she woke up when a friend went to pay her respects and scared the friend to death, literally the friend had a heart attack and died. Grandma went on to live to be 99 and died finally for real in 1980. Oddly she had premonitions of being not really dead and had last wishes that she not be buried for 7 days.
JAN 28, 2005 02:24 AM
ThisIsWhoWeAre said:
scott said:
it wasn't monty python, it was the princess bride...
i wonder if the medical examiner heard "to blathe..." or "true love" heh...
Thank you! I was about to have a stroke until I could see if someone else ponted that out....
but "I'm not dead yet!" is from monty python. it all got mixed up in there somewhere i think.
JAN 28, 2005 02:25 AM
Midnyte said:
Sorcha said:
Neyrissa said:
Hell, it happens. People can stop breathing and then start again.
It happens! Not saying it's a good thing, but we're only human! Remember the bells they used to put on the graves? There was a reason for it...and more than one bell ended up ringing!
Yes! The whole "saved by the bell" origin. I love you for knowing that.
I've also heard of cases in which a person appears dead on all counts but just "wakes up" a half-hour, hour, or even day later. Scary stuff.
My great grandma did that. She was pronounced dead when she was in her 70's. Then she woke up when a friend went to pay her respects and scared the friend to death, literally the friend had a heart attack and died. Grandma went on to live to be 99 and died finally for real in 1980. Oddly she had premonitions of being not really dead and had last wishes that she not be buried for 7 days.
hrm........ 
wouldn't she have been....well.......embalmed when her friend went to pay her respects?
JAN 28, 2005 02:32 AM
Ella_1
HOPEFUL
Australia
JAN 28, 2005 02:36 AM
Nimhly said:
hrm........
wouldn't she have been....well.......embalmed when her friend went to pay her respects?
Some people request that theyre not embalmed on religious grounds...
JAN 28, 2005 02:42 AM
Ella_1 said:
Nimhly said:
hrm........
wouldn't she have been....well.......embalmed when her friend went to pay her respects?
Some people request that theyre not embalmed on religious grounds...
AH, I did not know this.
So they would just go from supposedly dead right to the casket? That's interesting. You'd think she'd have suffocated or something.
JAN 28, 2005 03:00 AM
Nimhly said:
Midnyte said:
Sorcha said:
Neyrissa said:
Hell, it happens. People can stop breathing and then start again.
It happens! Not saying it's a good thing, but we're only human! Remember the bells they used to put on the graves? There was a reason for it...and more than one bell ended up ringing!
Yes! The whole "saved by the bell" origin. I love you for knowing that.
I've also heard of cases in which a person appears dead on all counts but just "wakes up" a half-hour, hour, or even day later. Scary stuff.
My great grandma did that. She was pronounced dead when she was in her 70's. Then she woke up when a friend went to pay her respects and scared the friend to death, literally the friend had a heart attack and died. Grandma went on to live to be 99 and died finally for real in 1980. Oddly she had premonitions of being not really dead and had last wishes that she not be buried for 7 days.
hrm........
wouldn't she have been....well.......embalmed when her friend went to pay her respects?
NO, she specifically requested not to be embalmed or buried. She was on ice or something. I'm not sure, I was alive when she died for real, but obviously not yet alive at the time this happened. It is family lore the whole family tells of it. And it was talked about a lot at her real funeral which I did attend in 1980. My dad took 8mm film of it and would show it every now and then as I grew up.
JAN 28, 2005 04:38 AM
FallFromGrace said:
Also, remember if you have the "organ donor" label on your Driver's licence the EMT's are instructed to NOT try and save you because people need them kidneys
What? Since when? I have never heard of that. I am just getting an image in my head if I told my station supervisor that we didn't work him because he was an organ donor. Hmmmmmmmmmm, not going to go over well.
Bottom line: If you are in accident , we work to save your life. Period.
JAN 28, 2005 09:47 AM
TheIRisHBaSTarD said:
FallFromGrace said:
Also, remember if you have the "organ donor" label on your Driver's licence the EMT's are instructed to NOT try and save you because people need them kidneys
What? Since when? I have never heard of that. I am just getting an image in my head if I told my station supervisor that we didn't work him because he was an organ donor. Hmmmmmmmmmm, not going to go over well.
Bottom line: If you are in accident , we work to save your life. Period.
it was a joke. it's an urban myth, kind of, that they don't save your life if you're an organ donor.
JAN 28, 2005 10:09 AM
JAN 28, 2005 11:28 PM
crispy said:
Cairo said:
There was a Stephen King story like this. A guy was bitten by a snake on a golf course, and was weirdly paralyzed and mistaken for dead. But he was aware and could hear what people were saying as they prepared for his autopsy, but could do nothing to let them know he was alive.
'Autopsy Room Four' from Everything's Eventual ... good call!
Excellent! I couldn't remember the name of the story...
We're so cool!
SirPsychoSexy
Ridgewood, NJ
January 2004
JAN 27, 2005 11:42 AM