Kate Hackett
@Slimkardi has gone viral on TikTok for her video sharing what it felt like to drown in a pool.
She created the TikTok post in response to a question: “Can anyone who’s not afraid of dying or death please tell me why?”
The TikToker went on to explain that her near-death did not actually cause her to fear the end of her life, and that she now feels she has an understanding of it.
She starts by explaining that she isn’t afraid of death because she has actually already died, then begins her story about the day she was playing with her neighbor in a pool and got into trouble.
“I’m still not sure if I was resuscitated or what happened, because obviously I wasn’t coherent, but I can tell you it didn’t hurt.
“I was drowning. I was very nervous you know, and I was very afraid and it started to freak me out. But when I inhaled the water I didn’t really feel anything.”
She describes a “very bright light” and said that that light was “filled with images, showed me my past, my future.”
She awoke after resuscitation efforts at the pool’s edge were successful.
“Now, not only have I had many encounters with strange, spiritual occurrences, I started to realize, this is why people torture each other. Because death is not painful, but torture is.”
Users were quick to pipe in about the TikTok video, which has over 2.1 million views and 725,000 likes.
One commented, “It’s not death that scares me, it’s more like the unknown of what comes after.” The comment was heavily liked, indicating that others agreed with the foreboding sentiment.
“It’s not death I’m scared of, I’m scared of HOW I die yo,” wrote someone else.
