There is no real proof that we feel any pain at the precise moment of death. For me i feel that no pain is remembered on entering this world, so why should death be any different. I think the mind and body work together more so than ever on this one.To make it a painless and peaceful pass over.

I've been near death before. I stopped breathing because of an anaphylactic reation. At first everything hurt, my chest, my throat, my head. I distracted myself from the pain with thoughts, thoughts about my life, everything. It wasn't like a movie, because it was like I was there, playing with my twin, oblivious to the fact the next day she would be dead. I was 13 then. That's the scene I "chose" Maya and I playing on the trampoline, best friends forever. I had a sensation that felt like cool running water, and I "looked up". My body did not look up, it was too weak for that. It was like seeing the world for the first time. It was not regular "seeing" I could see all around me, and walls were no obstruction. The vision of Maya and I seemed to blend with the whiteness. The whiteness? Yes.... Everything had linked, the vision, my new 360 view, and the whiteness. Jeez, it ws bright, bright than I could concive of. It was so bright, but it didn't hurt my eyes. I felt my thoughts slipping away with that cool stream of water. As my body finally lay still, and I slipped upwards ino that whiteness, I realized that I didn't hurt anymore, and I couldn't recall when I had stopped hurting, inside and out. The stream of "water" was cool and comforting, and looked through the whiteness and the vision, and into my sisters smiling eyes. I woke up in the hospital 3 days later, with doctors saying they pulled me back from the brink of death. I know that's not true. I died, and Maya sent me back. She was with me then, and will always be. She lived a happy life and has no regrets in her new "world". She's with me. I love you, Maya.
Your twin, your sister, your best friend,
Jessica G.

Some deaths do. But not for very long.

That would depend upon HOW you die.

I've had one near death experience and it was from pills and alchohol. I was sitting up in bed and I was sweating and my gut was, I don't know how else to describe it but it was fading. And I literally felt half of my soul leave my body.

I can't describe any of it as exactly painful though. It was gut wrenchingly spiritual. If you can imagine that.

There are incidences where people die instantly. In these cases the person feels nothing at all, just finds themselves out of their body. Other deaths are with people in a coma, a sleep like condition, where they just go softly into the next existance. Some of us that are fortunate enough to grow old may simply go to sleep and not wake up. Not all deaths are painful except for those of us that are left behind to deal with the loss and that is more emotional pain, real enough but not deadly. Try to remember that pain usually sets in hours after the trauma of injury and gets more painful before it gets better. There have even been people who did not know they had been shot untill it was pointed out to them. The shock of seeing the wound, blood, etc, is so surprising that once noticed the pain sets in immediately. Strange the way the brain works. Death, in and of itself, isn't painful, its the injury that brings about death that hurts.

Dying may hurt, but I would guess once you're dead, you feel no pain. Unless you believe in hell of course :-)

Death doesn't hurt. The best way to describe it is that your body has two flows of energy, seemingly linked when alive and healthy, but more separate as we come nearer to death. When the flows split completely, you are dead, and can not come back. And by flow, I mean flow of water, you literally feel as though you are water, air, and yet you burn like fire. The burn isn't painful, it's actually pleasant. But then, you feel nothing, and after that point you will cross the bridge...nobody knows what happens here, but that's it death...

I came extremely close to death and I felt no pain until when I regained conciousness the following day. During this time of unconciousness, death had no meaning for me. I don't believe it is the act of dieing that gives pain, it's the act of living.

I do not believe anyone alive can answer this with accuracy. As a nurse of only four years I have lost some patients while they slept and there was no immediate expectation of their death.. peaceful ? maybe.. probably? I hope so but who knows?? I have lost many who were medicated with morphine and it did seem almost peaceful..but many times in the last moments the breathing was rugged and movement caused them to moan.. which means they can feel discomfort but only when moved.. so possibly they were not in pain any other time while being medicated.. but the actual moment of death? I would like to think no because I have never had a patient screaming in pain at the moment of death. I can tell you that some Cancer patients suffer greatly. I have had some Cancer patients suffer in the final stages even heavily medicated, begging for death. Not all, but the majority I have given care for that were not under Hospice's care. The actual moment the heart stops.. who knows what is felt under any circumstance of death? The process of dying is different for each person. Lou Gehrig's Disease (amyotrophic latteral sclerosis)is another disease in which there is a lot of suffering yet the mind is strong.. it is more painful to my heart when a person is aware of their suffering and looming death. I still do not believe anyone alive knows whether there is pain during the moment OF death but I do know that there CAN be suffering on the door of it.
Many people fill up with fluid.. this is hard .. and breathing changes and sometimes they are not "with you" and I would like to think they are away from the claws of pain.
I urge anyone who wishes (like me) not to have heroic measures taken to keep them alive if something happens.. to at least allow for comfort measures. On a side note - God Bless Hospice workers as they work to help those dying be in comfort, not pain. The most peaceful deaths I have witnessed were patients with Hospice care.
---- I am not trying to sound morbid at all but I wanted to give an honest answer based on my experiences. Sorry for the long wind