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A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

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Re: A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

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Post by mywacaday »

chrissnell wrote: post #18
c3534l wrote: post #11

I've heard a few stories where a person seemed to suddenly acknowledge that they were about to die. Granted, my grandmother repeatedly claimed she was going to die that night and the one time it was true the family lore became that she somehow knew. But to stop what you're doing like that, I wonder what it is they're actually feeling in the moment. Did he know he was going to die? Did he just feel dizzy? What do peop…

I can’t speak for others but I had appendicitis about 10 years ago and ended up spending almost 8 hours in the ER waiting room suffering immensely. I distinctly remember towards the latter half of my wait that I began to feel a strange sensation of impending doom. I can’t describe it exactly but I feared that I might actually die if I wasn’t called back soon. I later heard that this sensation is supposedly one of the…

A sense of impending doom is listed in first aid books as a potential sign of a heart attack.

Re: A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

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Post by mywacaday »

c3534l wrote: post #11

I've heard a few stories where a person seemed to suddenly acknowledge that they were about to die. Granted, my grandmother repeatedly claimed she was going to die that night and the one time it was true the family lore became that she somehow knew. But to stop what you're doing like that, I wonder what it is they're actually feeling in the moment. Did he know he was going to die? Did he just feel dizzy? What do peop…

My grandmother had a small fall but she was frail, when she was discharged by the hospital she asked my uncle who she lived with if he would mind living alone, she passed away in her sleep that night.

Re: A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

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Post by elfexec »

Strange to see so many comments praising the way this guy died. Do people really want to die suddenly in front of strangers without any time to prepare and get your house in order?

So many here say that's the way they want to go, but that's hard to believe. Personally, I'd rather be given a few months or years notice so that I can prepare.

Re: A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

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Post by usrusr »

clay_the_ripper wrote: post #28

My grandfather loved golf. He played golf every day. And he died playing golf. We all gotta go, I can’t think of a better way than while doing the thing you love most. It does make it easier for your relatives (or at least it did for me with my grandfather) knowing that he died doing what he loves.

> It does make it easier for your relatives (or at least it did for me with my grandfather) knowing that he died doing what he loves.

That's a thing to strive for: make those who outlive you feel good about it. I mean besides the inadvisable trivial solution of being a jerk who everybody including their mom wants gone.

Re: A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

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Post by HeadsUpHigh »

echelon wrote: post #32
fernly wrote: post #12

Dubious about the "heart attack" diagnosis, at least as the phrase is usually understood. More likely "Sudden Cardiac Arrest"[1]: "In over half of the cases, however, sudden cardiac arrest occurs without prior symptoms." Like, the pump just stops. You'd feel faint and then be unconscious. [1] https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/guide/sudden-cardiac-dea...

Does this happen in young, healthy individuals? I was reading the Wikipedia article linked in another thread [1], and several of the "sudden" deaths were people in their 40s that appear to have been healthy. Do you feel symptoms, eg. during exercise, that you should listen to so as to inform you to stop whatever activity you're doing? Feeling light-headed, short of breath, blurry vision, etc.? I run and also perform…

Yes it mostly happens in young-er individuals because the reasons behind it are most likely genetic/hereditary and thus these people often don't live long enough to die from them later on. Some reasons include hypertrophic conditions( I'm not 100% sure on the english terms and I'm still an undergrad). Other reasons have to do with problems on ion channels which cause issues with electrical signals traveling through the heart resulting in ventricular fibrilation( e.g. Brugada, but you might have had episodes of passing out in the past). Some of this stuff is detectable but it's hard and there's no effective screening of the population. You might want to get checked by a specialist if you have a family history of early sudden deaths.

Environmental factors include things like steroid abuse( often in conjunction with amphetamin usage, see Rich Piana suspicions).

Re: A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

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Post by Doxin »

retrac wrote: post #26
c3534l wrote: post #11

I've heard a few stories where a person seemed to suddenly acknowledge that they were about to die. Granted, my grandmother repeatedly claimed she was going to die that night and the one time it was true the family lore became that she somehow knew. But to stop what you're doing like that, I wonder what it is they're actually feeling in the moment. Did he know he was going to die? Did he just feel dizzy? What do peop…

Supposedly, a panic attack is subjectively similar in some ways to actually having a major medical emergency, especially a heart attack. "Impending sense of doom" is a symptom of a heart attack.

Fun fact: a lot of the symptoms of a panic attack are the same as the symptoms of a heart attack. This comes in especially inconvenient if the focus of your panic attack is fear of a heart attack. It's basically a self-confirming incorrect diagnosis.

Re: A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

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Post by yibg »

redleader55 wrote: post #46
maxwin wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand why whenever there is a discussion about aging research, people always bring out the problem of us living forever or till the end of the universe. I mean how about just double or triple our lifespan which is nothing wrong and we still have no idea how to do that. I think maybe the reason why so many people is against it is because of religion.

There's a very famous series of books by Isaac Asimov that deals with this problem - The Robots. Basically once humans are able to increase their life span, they become reluctant to take any risks and the become stuck in their own "immortality". It's no different than what the GP says. Weather it's until the end of the universe or just a few hundred years, we still become more risk adverse and less capable of change.

People take plenty of risks before the tail end of their life span now. Don’t see why that would change if we live a long time.

Re: A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

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Post by richard78459 »

emmelaich wrote: post #48
Iv wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Speak for yourself. I want to live for as long as I have even brief moments of lucidity. I don't believe in an afterlife, I intend to savor everything I am receiving. One of my biggest fear is that people fail to appreciate that I value more existence than the absence of suffering and may take a very bad decision for me at one point.

The idiom is "speak for yourself" (sorry if I offend)

The definition of "idiom" as per the google search is

"a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light )."

The sentence "speak for yourself" has the meaning that is directly deduced from its words. How does it qualify as an idiom ?

Re: A singer apologized, closed his eyes, dropped his head and died onstage

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Post by withinboredom »

Doxin wrote: post #106
retrac wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Supposedly, a panic attack is subjectively similar in some ways to actually having a major medical emergency, especially a heart attack. "Impending sense of doom" is a symptom of a heart attack.

Fun fact: a lot of the symptoms of a panic attack are the same as the symptoms of a heart attack. This comes in especially inconvenient if the focus of your panic attack is fear of a heart attack. It's basically a self-confirming incorrect diagnosis.

> inconvenient if the focus of your panic attack is fear of a heart attack

This is called Cardiophobia.

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