If someone needs CPR, they’re dead and you’re trying to bring them back to life. They weren’t conscious and won’t remember receiving CPR.

I don’t remember it, but I’m still alive 25 years later

and very grateful to Mrs. Sarah Boyd, wherever you are... :')

Saw it done on someone once. If you're in bad enough shape that you're getting it, you are for sure not going to remember it. Which is good because it's fucking violent

So you know that thing on TV where they take the paddles and go "CLEAR!" and shock the patient?

I had that done. Was mildly sedated. Didn't even know it happened. Woke up and went "Did it work?" and the doc was like "Yeah, you already asked that question..."

I haven’t had it but my mom did. She experienced or remembered none of the actual cpr but the recovery from bruising and broken ribs was so painful that she signed a do not resuscitate order saying she would rather die than have cpr again.

My friend had an NDE when she was three. She says it was like a classic account but slightly nightmarish, saying she remembers at first a heaven-like scene before being told "don't look down", but she does anyways and sees everyone she knows in the other afterlife. I don't know how much CPR she needed that time, but she'd then need it again at the age of fourteen because we were screwing around and needed rescuing (I did not need CPR). Ironically she knows CPR, the only one in my prime social circle who does, so it's scary she's always the one who needs it.

Can’t tell if lemmyns is a typo or on purpose. If purposeful, please explain

Does it count if it was received when it wasn't needed and just part of the CPR training class? For some reason this one CPR training session I had for some damn thing (I've done a few of these because of boy scouts and jobs I've had) didn't have the dummies, so we had to practice on each other.

It was weird. I really would only want someone doing it when it's absolutely necessary.