Featured Image Credit: TikTok/@glojays
Topics: TikTok, Life, Health, US News, Social Media
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Topics: TikTok, Life, Health, US News, Social Media
A man who died after suffering a sudden medical episode at work before being revived back to life has given us some valuable insight into what it's like on the other side.
According to a 2017 study on the common fears of average Americans, more than 20 percent say they were 'afraid' or 'very afraid' of dying.
And although this dragged way behind from the fear of 'computers replacing people in the workforce' (25.3 percent), a drone surge by the US government (27.2 percent) and even the 'collapse of the electrical grid' at 35.7 percent (ahem, Spain..), it's fair to say a fear of death is pretty common.
Yet according to one man, death actually isn't something we should be so afraid of - and perhaps deserves its lowly spot behind that of pollution, credit card fraud and climate change after all.
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The unnamed man bumped into TikTok superstar @glojays, who interviews people on the street to his 2.5 million followers, and revealed all about his brush with death.
Glojays initially asked him why his glasses were broken, to which he explained he had recently suffered a seizure.
"It's pretty crazy to talk about," he said. "I had a seizure last week and it's uh, fallout from my death from last year."
The traumatic incident unfolded while he was working in a cafe and his skull just suddenly 'cracked' open.
"I had what's called a craniectomy - or I had a blood clot on my brain, it grew to the size of my brain," he continued.
He then revealed medics shockingly declared he was dead.
As to how he 'came back' to life, he explained: "My vitals came back in the ambulance. I survived a six-hour surgery, it's called a craniectomy and it [has] a 42 percent fatality rate."
The patient was also hospitalized in a coma for two weeks, but apparently has come out with a new lease of life.
"My doctor calls me 'coin flipper' because I flipped a coin on my life and I had a bad coin, and I still won," he said.
When asked what his death experience was like, he promptly replied: "Peaceful. Peaceful."
The hard part, so he says, is actually life after his death experience.
He said he often considered stories from other people who have survived death to be 'BS,' saying that while he didn't 'see' anything on the other side, he did confirm one common theory.
"Now that I've been through it, what I can say is true what a lot of people say is: Life flashes before your eyes, like every memory.
"I'm telling you, every single memory you've ever made in your entire life will rush past you at light speed and you get to a point where whatever pain you might be feeling, you don't feel anymore and you'll kind of just start to not even understand what's going on and then either you'll be back or you won't," he explained.
"But it's very peaceful and honestly, one of the hardest things I've had to deal with is accepting to be back alive after I died."
Fortunately, he feels 'better' about the situation now but others on social media have found his account of dying comforting.
However, some joked on Reddit it sounded like he didn't want to come back, as one wrote: "Back to breaking my glasses in a seizure-induced spasm. Mondays!"
And another said: "Oh ffs, now I HAVE to pay my bill," which, coincidentally, sits in the sixth spot of 80 most common American fears at 48.4 percent.