I just watched the ending of an episode of ER. Dr. “balding spot” is in the elevator with a trauma patient who’s having a cardiac arrest. Apparently this patient is a “bad bad man” who went on a rampage, shooting and killing everyone who had to do with social services taking away his son. Dr. “balding spot’s” wife was one of the victims. Anyway, they’re alone in the elevator and Dr. “balding spot” is holding the human-jumper-cable thingies and is waiting for them to charge. They’re charged. He holds them up in front of the “bad bad man” and discharges them into the air, while looking him straight in the eyes. The human-jumper-cable thingies are charged again, and he discharges them again. The “bad bad man’s” blue eyes (that is all you could see, his face is covered with an oxygen mask) are wide opened with terror. The ECG squiggly lines are getting shallower, his eye lids are getting heavier. You could hear the human-jumper-cable thingies charging up a 3rd time. A 3rd discharge. The episode ends.

An out-of-body experience. I get transported inside that “bad bad man’s” body, and I can see through his eyes. My vision is getting blurry, my chest is getting heavier with each breath, I’m feeling increasingly lite headed, I see the human-jumper-cable thingies discharging but not on my chest as they’re supposed to. Why isn’t this doctor saving me? The terror, am I going to die? I’m slipping… chest… heavy… breathing… difficult. Slipping… Dieing… Silence… … … Darkness.

The whole seen was less than 30 seconds. But it felt much longer. I literally had trouble breathing during and after this scene.