Clinical Death Quotes

Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those having to do with the cold.

It is very difficult to clinically diagnose someone who is dead.

I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.

I did die once, for seven seconds, after a burst appendix.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

It can't be dead. It was alive just a minute ago.

She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.

I was in a coma for five days - I was dead longer than Jesus before he was raised from the dead.

I know people who have had near-death experiences or who have experienced terminal illness and come through the other side.

When we deal with death, the pupils will always be fixed and dilated, which indicates that there is no longer brain activity or response.

I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I base what I'm saying not on any empirical evidence. I think it's very possible that when you're dying, these circuits open up, which would explain this whole white-light phenomena - when people clinically die and they see their relatives and stuff and say, "Hello, it's great to see you."

As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.

I did not die, and yet I lost life’s breath

I had a real epiphany. I guess it was during and after the operation. I did what's a common thing; I kind of raised above the table and could look at me and listen to all the people talking and understand what they were saying and so forth.

My heart stopped seven times and I had to be resuscitated seven times. It's incredible I'm still here so every day I feel happy to have a second chance but I'm sorry to say I didn't see any tunnel or any light at the end of it.