Do you think if you didn’t wake up after going under general anesthesia you would have no idea you were gone?

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Went for surgery today and had this thought.

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  1. Petwins Avatar

    I don’t think dead people know they are dead.

  2. BoraBora1000 Avatar

    Yes!! It almost happened to my mother.. it took an hour that she woke up! They were afraid that she almost passed away! Anesthesia is very risky for older people! That’s why they let them sign papers before that risk is on your own

  3. Emotional_meat_bag Avatar

    How can you go to sleep alive and wake up dead?

  4. gooberfaced Avatar

    Unconsciousness slipping into death would be seamless- you are not conscious so you would not realize what was happening.

  5. WestminsterGabss Avatar

    Headed to surgery in a few hours today. I’ll reach out either way. 👻

  6. Temporary-Pin-320 Avatar

    At this moment, sounds like a good idea

  7. CenterofChaos Avatar

    That’s essentially how pets are euthanized. They’re given a sedative similar to anesthesia then the injection. 

  8. Far_Spread_4200 Avatar

    Great question to be fair, I got transferred to a different hospital whilst in recovery post op and thought they must have renovated the ward completely whilst I was having my surgery

  9. foster_love13579 Avatar

    Yes, I believe you would know you didn’t wake up from surgery.The YOU is the soul. The soul always knows where it is. Our skin and bones are just a layer our souls are clothed in. Souls are forever.

  10. Indigo-Waterfall Avatar

    I don’t understand the question. If you died regardless of being under GA or Not. How would you know anything? Youre dead.

  11. StragglingShadow Avatar

    Nah. You’d go under for the surgery and simply never wake. Probs one of the best ways to go, frankly.

  12. vandergale Avatar

    If I didn’t wake up (i.e. died) there wouldn’t be a “me” to have thoughts about it, let alone ideas.

  13. Corvid-Ranger-118 Avatar

    Still one of the maddest things that happened to me in my life was I was going under before an operation and while I was just still about conscious the anaesthetist casually put his clipboard down on my chest like I was a piece of furniture, and I was like “Uh-oh, this dude is not going to take good care of meeeezzzzzzzzzzzzz”

  14. TisBeTheFuk Avatar

    Least painfull way to die, I guess

  15. Dry_Equivalent9220 Avatar

    Probably not; I flatlined and was revived during surgery, I didn’t even know for a few days. I just felt like I woke up from a nap, there was no surprise or forgetting I was going to wake up in the hospital.

    Another time that happened, I had no awareness I missed two weeks; when I woke up and was told what happened, I just checked the other leg that had a new-ish tattoo for damage. I saw it was fine and went back to sleep. It felt no different than a nap.

  16. RedrumGoddess Avatar

    Someone needs to read more philosophy. You don’t get to experience the death. You died. You go from conscious, unconscious, to nothing. You don’t even know.