Rik Mayall Quotes

I did die once, for seven seconds, after a burst appendix.

I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.

When you hear 'From the Other Side,' it's like being on an operating table. Suddenly, you're on the ceiling looking down at the doctors who are fighting for you. Are you gonna get a second chance or not?

I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.

I know people who have had near-death experiences or who have experienced terminal illness and come through the other side.

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

I knew a man who had been virtually drowned and then revived. He said that his death had not been painful.

And I could have died right then. And considering how things went, I really should have.

I do believe that when we're in the process of dying, that all these emergency circuits in the brain take over. I base what I'm saying not on any empirical evidence. I think it's very possible that when you're dying, these circuits open up, which would explain this whole white-light phenomena - when people clinically die and they see their relatives and stuff and say, "Hello, it's great to see you."

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

Changi for me - of course it's easy to be wise after the event, and to discuss it cleverly after the event - was about as near as you can get to being dead and still be alive.

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Occasionally, human beings are briefly de-animated, and the stories of people who are briefly de-animated that interest me the most are those having to do with the cold.

There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

My daughter couldn't wake me up, so they called 911. They rushed me to the hospital. They drilled a hole in my head and wrapped a coil around my brain. I was unconscious for a week, and I was in rehab for two months - couldn't walk, couldn't talk. Now I've relearned everything. I'm so happy.

Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.

I died. Which is fantastic, because I have died already; I have been there and come back. I am completely recovered, thank you.

I had internal bleeding with blood clots on the brain. I was completely blind and deaf. I had a heart attack and a stroke.

There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.

I almost drowned in the Hooghly river, which is something really crazy. If there is something about Calcutta that scares me, it's that.

I don't remember being put into the coma, but I do have a lot of weird memories from being under. This may be because I was in a coma via medicine rather than trauma. That time period played out for me as one long rambling dream where I was at a hospital to visit my boyfriend, who I thought was in an accident.