Yesterday, I saw a man flatline 5 feet in front of me, on the Metra home, while a personal trainer, and a civie performed CPR on him.
He collapsed, his heart stopped beating, he was turning purple, and he stopped breathing. They got a pulse back several times and lost him several times. Finally the CFD showed up and zapped him.
I couldn't move because I had never witnessed the final drama of life unfold. Was this man about to become a corpse?
I believe they finally a got a pretty heathy pulse, carted him away, the train took me home and I had some Mexican food.
The unfortunate man had to have been in his late 40's.
I guess I'm not entirely sure what to make of it.
For one thing if you view all suffering on a spectrum well....some of my stuff seems pretty small to unduly bother myself with. They seem more like practical matters now.
He collapsed, his heart stopped beating, he was turning purple, and he stopped breathing. They got a pulse back several times and lost him several times. Finally the CFD showed up and zapped him.
I couldn't move because I had never witnessed the final drama of life unfold. Was this man about to become a corpse?
I believe they finally a got a pretty heathy pulse, carted him away, the train took me home and I had some Mexican food.
The unfortunate man had to have been in his late 40's.
I guess I'm not entirely sure what to make of it.
For one thing if you view all suffering on a spectrum well....some of my stuff seems pretty small to unduly bother myself with. They seem more like practical matters now.
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bluvelvet:
i had the very unfortunate experience of watching someone die. it is both the most real and most surreal moment of my life. it was a random car accident in front of the building i was living in, no rhyme or reason to it. what i saw gave me a bit of a different filter to look at life through. i very much agree with what lady_sappho said.
esme:
Destiny's a funny thing....