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Would you be calm in the face of death? Do you think being calm can reduce the intensity of physical trauma?

  • Do you think deciding to be calm helped saved this young Mum's life? London, Apr 17 (ANI): In what could be called a miracle, a 38-year-old Brit mum gave birth to healthy twins just minutes after suffering a massive heart failure. Nina Whear gave birth to twins Evie and Alfie through caesarean section moments after her weeping husband bade her an emotional farewell. Whear, of Lamas, Norwich, suffered heart failure two weeks before the babies were due on January 6. The wall of her main aorta artery had ripped open due to which blood poured between the layers of the aorta's wall, breaking them apart and causing massive internal bleeding. She was rushed to hospital, where doctors gave her a seven per cent chance of survival. Her husband drove 100 miles from his base in Aldershot, Hants, to be at her side. "It was the most frightening night of my entire life. Every morning I think about how I might not have seen that day," the Sun quoted Nina as saying. "I remember them bringing Andy through and we were left alone to say our goodbyes. "I was very calm because I thought if I was going to die I wanted to do it calmly. "When I woke up after the operation I couldn't believe I was alive." "I am so grateful to the staff at the hospital and the ambulance team," added. (ANI)

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    Let me see now I have shaken hands with death 9 times so far, each time has been different, but, ultimately I have been too busy figuring out how to stay alive, to be worried about panic or running around and screaming like a cheap disaster movie. Of course I am English and was brought up to have a very stiff lip and not to give in to things like pain or fear and all of my family has served in the army or air force, so there is a background of knowing that others' have coped an so I knew and know that I shall be OK. The killing grounds are where I met with death, the grim reaper, and there is no where, not even in man's worst imaginings that compare with the hell of war. I read your words of hell and damnation, but they are little things and of no meaning, you speak of things and understand nothing, you religionists who cannot understand that hell has no fears for those of us who have already been there. You talk of miracles as though everything is miraculous and you demean the word by overuse, where a shell lands and kills a man and the boy next to him is untouched, is that miraculous or just plain and simple luck? All that matters in this world is 'Do you have someone that you trust so much that you would have them covering your back in a battle' and know that they will be calm and collected?

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Two questions really here Faith in my opinion. "Would I be calm":- Yes, as I have already faced it for myself, and as an Atheist I have no qualms, apart from the care of my Wife. Secondly, I was asked just this afternoon whether I would agree to hypothetically turning off "life support" for my Wife if the situation arose at some time in the future. I had no hesitation in saying yes. May your god bless this family and keep them.

AtS- Abraxas

I don't think any body can answer that truthfully till they are in that position

Moonstone

I share a similar view,with 'Across the Sea'.I have always told my family,that if I'm going to be paralysed from the neck down,or be a vegetable,switch off the machines. Shaken hands with death,so no fears for me.Maybe it's because I'm atheist and don't have religion to wrestle with!?

Bear

Yes I have been calm, more than once when facing death.. I did die from an Anaphylactic experience..The hospital tried to save my life...They did, obviously. I had very strong faith before I had this experience.. I was dead for almost 7 minutes..I should be brain damaged. While dead I saw & heard the most beautiful things. These have added to my faith. God promises us peace & He gives me peace & strength a lot. My husband also has amazing love, peace & strength. Jesus is true & I pray more people will find Him to be the true answer in our crazy world.

I was on board an aircraft that lost the hydraulics system and was forced to make an emergency landing. It was frightening, some prayed, some cried, even the crew were very snappy with people. I thought this was my last moment on this earth, and did not want to die a coward in front of my wife. Silly really because we would be in pieces on the runway, but it is peculiar what goes through your mind at times like that. I managed to remain composed and as we disembarked I made sure that my wife could not see my trembling hands. I have to say that my wife amazed me with her courage, perhaps she too was shielding her true feelings from me. We have never spoken about it. We still fly four times every year.

Dying would be a stone cold groove!

ilovestrawberry.com

i was near death and felt very calm i think your brian tells you like most animals just go to sleep strange

G F

no i know i would not be, i tend to faint if one of my kids hurt themselves, its the way i am cant be helped, also when i was told my dad died i got a fit of giggles, really badly, my mam looked at m in horror and joined in, soon i had the whole bloody family in fits, god knows what the nurses thought when they came to give us tea and toast.

dollyk

On a day to day basis involving things like the cat mauling a bird or hearing an unexplained bang in the house I'm fairly rubbish and overly emotional ( not entirely pathetic or hysterical but not great ) However on the thankfully few times I've faced real trauma I go stony cold and pragmatic, be that concerning myself or another. I'm no good if someone is 'nice' to me when I am trying to cope. I have lashed out at people who have come near me if I am physically hurt or trying to cope with a situation. I cut myself very badly once as a child and i had to be rugby tackled to the floor because my first instinct was to run..I got to the top of our street before I was apprehended LOL. I can understand this woman totally - I think I would be the same. Panicking isn't going to change the outcome. EDIT- just read others posts..I'm Atheist also and I've read somewhere that Atheists are less anxious in the final stages than those with faith. No disrepect Faith- I just think it's curiuos and that seems to be borne out by your answers.

Haz

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