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Original poster

To want to shout at my new colleague "you didn't die, if you had you wouldn't be here talking shite"

169 replies

Whatdoesitmatteranyway · 07/05/2019 09:13

Just that.

Apparently he was in a bad accident several years ago and "died" three times.

No he didn't. We haven't the ability to resurrect people.

DH does this as well. Tells me about his friend who "died" for 10 minutes after a heart episode. I have pointed out that he can't have died and I get told that no, he did. the doctors told him.

I want to go find a plank and hit either me or him over the head with it - which ever is quickest to shut up his bollocks.

I want to get an ad campaign stating this bloody obvious point because its ridiculous the number of people who parrot it out.

OP posts:
Mayalready · 07/05/2019 09:15

Just start calling him Jesus... Pass on a memo....

CurtainsOpen · 07/05/2019 09:16

I'd mention I've died of boredom listening to it if it comes up again.

gamerchick · 07/05/2019 09:19

It's just when people's heart stops and they have to be resuscitated isn't it?

Original poster
Whatdoesitmatteranyway · 07/05/2019 09:20

"It's just when people's heart stops and they have to be resuscitated isn't it?"

@Gamerchick

Yes, but its still not DEAD

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Sicario · 07/05/2019 09:20

So he's actually a reincarnation of what, himself? I'd keep asking him loads of annoying questions about it. Was there a white light? Did he get to float above his physical body and have one of those out-of-body experiences? Did he remember feeling hungry while dead (because you've heard about that phenomenon)?

MorticiaAddamsIsMyStyleGuru · 07/05/2019 09:23

Call him Ser Beric Dondarrion and tell him to avoid Winterfell 😜

HomeMadeMadness · 07/05/2019 09:24

Obviously they're not literally dead it's just a saying and everyone knows what they mean. It would probably get tedious if the story is being recounted over and over again though!

PenelopeFlintstone · 07/05/2019 09:25

Yes, but it's still not DEAD
Is it not? What is it then? (Genuinely puzzled.)

Butchyrestingface · 07/05/2019 09:26

The story would quickly get tedious if repeated ad nausium but the mere fact of saying they “died”, well, you know what they meant, didn’t you?

DecomposingComposers · 07/05/2019 09:26

So his heart stopped and he was resuscitated? That's a massive thing for someone to come to terms with. Yes he was resuscitated but could so easily have not been brought back.

I think I'd try to sympathise.

PeachesAndMayo · 07/05/2019 09:27

Look, it was the most exciting thing that has ever happened to him in his miserable life, so either learn to grin and bear it (and, yes, ask bizarre questions) or tune him out completely. And feel sorry for him. If the most exciting thing that has happened to you is that you died.........well, it doesn't say much for his life, does it?
Alternate thought - plant the seed that he might have been brought back for a reason and that sitting in an office maybe isn't fulfilling his destiny. Leave leaflets about working for charities abroad lying around or something.

FiddlesticksAkimbo · 07/05/2019 09:28

What is it then?
Alive would be my guess

CylindraceousNicholas · 07/05/2019 09:29

alive would be my guess
At what point between after heart stopping do you die then?

SD1978 · 07/05/2019 09:31

Being pedantic- he was clinically dead, but not biologically dead- they are two seperate things. So yes, he was 'dead' but not dead, dead (biologically dead).

GruciusMalfoy · 07/05/2019 09:34

At what point between after heart stopping do you die then

Within minutes, I believe. I'd guess it was to do with brain activity too.

Mayalready · 07/05/2019 09:34

Bring him a fish into work and ask him to do his stuff...

Chloemol · 07/05/2019 09:35

Actually if your heart stops you are technically dead. That’s why people do CPR to keep the oxygen flowing, sometimes the heart can be re started. Have you ever thought that technically we die if we have an operation? Breathing is taken over for you when you are put to sleep. So if you have had an operation why don’t you say you died as well?

JaneJeffer · 07/05/2019 09:36

Find some millennials for him to chat to. They literally die all the time so will be able to emphatise.

Eliza9919 · 07/05/2019 09:36

I'm not normally one that holds with trotting out disability/mental health excuses for everything but he might have PTSD. Dying 3 times is a serious thing to come to terms with.

CitadelsofScience · 07/05/2019 09:36

There's another thread I've commented on about near death experiences, on there those of us who've had one used the phrase 'died for a while' and a couple of people just like you op decided to correct us. They knew what we meant, it's just a phrase to get a point across.

Stop trying to sound clever Hmm

AndSheWas85 · 07/05/2019 09:37

@GruciusMalfoy LOL, don't forget a few litres of water bottles for the wine trick.

ILoveMaxiBondi · 07/05/2019 09:37

I'd mention I've died of boredom listening to it if it comes up again.

Grin yes! This^

jinglet · 07/05/2019 09:39

🤣🤣🤣🤣 @JaneJeffer

FreeTedHastings · 07/05/2019 09:41

One of my friends died twice a few years ago before her heart problem was detected. As SD1978 says, she was clinically dead and needed resuscitated. And she could have died.

Not surprisingly she's pretty traumatised about the whole thing. I'm sympathetic to her and appreciate she needs to say it out loud quite often.

goose1964 · 07/05/2019 09:42

My gran died during an operation but they revived her, it is possible.