Drowning...confusing question.

[pitc9]

I almost drowned a few years back on a white water rafting trip. The raft flipped and it landed, upside down on top of me. I had some room to try to breath, but the raft was stuck in the rapid and water was splashing up in my face constantly and I kept sucking in water. I've never felt so close to dyeing and I've never been so scared in my life.
I knew all I had to do was take a deep breath and swim out from under it, but with the water splashing like crazy and every time I tried to take a deep breath all I got was water. I was 100% freaked out and thought I was going to die. I remember thinking about my family and how much I'd miss them. Then.. the next thing I knew, I somehow was out from under the raft. I have no idea how it happened. I was never able to take a breath big enough to swim out on my own because I had already sucked in so much water.
Someone was with me in spirit that day watching over me and they had a hand in getting me out from under that raft, I could never have done it on my own.
That was my first and LAST rafting trip.
Drowning is NOT the way I would want to die.

[Husky_mom]

I was gonna say that more than painful it would seem more terrifying and feeling desperate cause you know what´s coming so you panic......I think that when you lack air you black out, and then as you are unconcious (SP?) I´ve heard your lungs fill with water and you heart explodes ( well maybe not that drastically, but due to the pressure of water and all) and the little things in your lung I think alveoli or something too.......then your brain dies as consecuence of lack of oxygen........so maybe It would be painful until you pass out or if you make it, as said by many drowning experienced Pters,and their chests hurt afterward ........JMO

[carole]

Hmm what an odd topic, however i would like to think of it as being peaceful, my auntie comitted suicide by drowning herself, they say though because it was in Scotland, and at the time of year it was, the water was so cold, she would have had a heart attack and died very quickly, i can only hope so, it haunts me to this day.

[king2005]

This is something I have looked into for many years (about 8). I know people HATE when i bring this up, but it goes very well with this topic. I breed feeder rats (no imbreeding, I'm ubber picky as I do give some away as pets). I feed live & dead. I once thought drowning was painless & thats how I killed my feeders many years ago... I soon realized that not only was it painful, but the animal was being scared to death in the process. I then held off on killing them until I found a better way. I read info online & talked to my Bio & Chem teachers. We all disscussed this in great detail for a long time.

Besides dying in your sleep, freezing to death is the next best way. But it has to be done right. There needs to be shaving or someway for the animal to keep its feet warm as frost bite is painful! What happeneds is that hypothermia sets in. What that does, is it slows the body down, which then makes the animal fall asleep until death happeneds.

[GreyhoundGirl]

I flipped over one of those styrofoam boats and couldn't flip it back over. I wasn't really close to drowning I guess, just really scared. I'd be really scared drowning, it sounds painful, seeing as you're filling your lungs with water instead of air. But I'm a fully qualified lifeguard now So I'm not scared much anymore.

[*iluvskipper*]

Hmm.. Lol I wouldnt really know because I've never drowned before.. But I've always thought of it as if you just like pass out from not having enough air so that would be it...

[king2005]

But I've always thought of it as if you just like pass out from not having enough air so that would be it...

Its actually a long death. It can take 5-10 mins to drown to death.. .just because you stop moving, doesn't mean your 100% dead yet... I've learned that with rats. they look dead but they can jump start again. Its a god aweful thing.