Whats the closest to death you think you have been?

pjoasisrule

For me it was probably a time when I was in high school when I mixed prescription cough syrup (I had walking pneumonia at the time) with mountain dew and vodka. Not only did I come home to my parents that night (obviously they realized I was fucked up out of my mind) but I then started throwing up stomach acid, while shivering and sweating at the same time. My heart was also beating like crazy and skipping beats.

restlesssoul

i was 23. i was a fucking madman. i should have died that year. i was out of control when i was 23.


i was driving to NELSON from VANCOUVER at night. through mountains. pitch black 12 hour drive. left at 7 @ night. got there safely 7am on my buddies couch.

my idea of a good time driving there was an 8 pack of old stock and some weed. i woke up at the wheel in the gravel shoulder twice doing 80k, then i said i better take a break from driving. should have died. cliffs very steep. i was insane. i drove there to do mushrooms with a buddy. we did them that night, and i drove back home the next day.

needless to say , ive changed a lot. im a completely different person. that guy was a fuckin idiot. he almost killed me.

thanks for listening.

pjfan31

I was nearly stabbed at a really dodgy train station late at night in the western suburbs of Sydney. This guy came up wearing just shorts and he had jail tattoos all over him. He came up saying "I'm going to fucking stab someone I 'm going to fucking kill someone" I was shitting myself as he was waving a broken bottle in my face. Then this girl I had been out for a drink with said "well can you do it down that end?"

I seriously thought that comment would be the end and he said "Yes I will, because your a feeemale, your a feeeemale" I was shaking in my boots, and this girl was as cool calm and collected as you like. crazy night

Vedderlution_Baby

Unless my mom isn't telling me something...not very close. Although, one morning I decided to risk missing the bus to high school to finish the Stairway to Heaven solo. Got about fifty feet to the bus stop and two cars collided. One flipped right onto the space I always stood at. Had I not stayed at home...I dunno man. I never would've seen it coming.

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Reading through some of the random things people just ate in AET.

Kilgore_Trout

probably like last... october... i drank and smoked alot and then passed out on my sofa... i woke up to realize i had thrown up in my sleep... luckily for me i passed out on my side or i couldve choked and died... i guess its not that extreme of a story but im usually pretty cautious

Collin

Nearly got hit by a car that ran a red light. I was extremely close and he was driving very fast.

Another time my friend pushed me and I fell over a tree stump. I tried to keep my balance and by doing so I stumbled onto the road (a small country road) a speeding car came at me, luckily one of my friends was able to push me into the stingy nettles, which grew on the side of the road The car would have hit me, but he had slowed down by then, so I'm not sure I would have died, I probably would have broken something, though.

FinsburyParkCarrots

I've lost count. Some of those brushes with the great beyond have also, paradoxically, constituted times when I've felt the most alive.

Pauk

Probably the two times my heart stopped beating and they had to use the refribulators on me. :cool:

Was hit by a bus when I was 12 (21 now so it's all long behind me). Wasn't particularly fun, nearly died quite a few times (The local paper even published a story purely from rumour that I had become a vegetable, igniting my immense dislike for journalists). Apparently the chances of me surviving were about 30-40%, if it was a car I would have almost certainly died. So feel pretty lucky really.

catefrances

when i held the cooling body of an addict lover.

Byrnzie

The nearest I came was with a hangover one day after drinking and doing copious amounts of speed.
Although It could be argued that it was when I was hit by a car travelling at about 50mph, although I was so drunk at the time I just rolled/bounced over the top of it.

TinyFists

Running from a bear in Canada or maybe in my best friend's car - she drives far too fast and far too close.

Jason P

I was crushed by a 15 foot wave while surfing in San Diego.

I also almost had a heart attack while watching the 2006 AFC Championship game.

cheeseandrice

we were travelling on a two lane back road in PA in the rain in the mountains and was behind this tank truck for 2 hours. He was going 35, so my ex decided to pass him. All the cars behind us moved up, so there was no where to go. A car was coming the other way without his lights on, so we were forced to go off the other side of the road. We fell 50-60 feet down the embankment, rolled the car. I was asleep and pregnant in the front seat and remember waking up "Dukes of Hazard" style ...in the air. One lonely tree stopped us from rolling further down the side of the hill. Ex had a broken neck and I had severe bruises everywhere. Couldn't walk for weeks. Our daughter in the back car seat slept through the whole thing. Not a scratch.

John Briggs 2008

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

I've lost count. Some of those brushes with the great beyond have also, paradoxically, constituted times when I've felt the most alive.

Could not have said it better myself. I have danced with death more than once. I am pretty damn blessed if there is such a thing.

libragirl

I have had surgery for various things and it's been fine. The only time I felt I was close to death is when a long time ago when me and my boyfriend at the time broke up I drank a whole or almost a whole bottle of vodka...I felt like i was going to die.

restlesssoul

catefrances wrote:

when i held the cooling body of an addict lover.

wow, that gave me chills.

toaster

One time I drank a bottle of vodka in two hours. I was 16, and I'm a girl so this made me practically unconscious of what I was doing.
Wasted out of our minds me and my friend apparently had to pee. Or, I don't know. Can't remember much other than that I'm standing in this really steep and long hill that leeds down to the river trying to pee. Then I remember slipping, falling down and crashing into a tree. If the tree hadn't stopped me I would've fallen down in the river and probably drowned. I have no idea how I got up again.

I've never felt closer to death than the day after though. Haven't had vodka since.

norm

i was 10 years old and my family was on vacation in mexico (cabo)....my dad, brother and i were walking on the beach in a cove....about half way through, my dad and bro turned around and headed in the other direction although i didn't realize it....so i was at one end of the cove and they were at the other (Little more than an 1/8th of a mile)

i begin walking back toward them, letting the wave crash on my legs....next thing i know a wave hits me and well it felt like the water grabbed my legs and pulled me into the water....if you've been caught in a riptide you know that feeling....i had never experienced it

so now i'm being pulled out and under to sea....i can see my dad and bro and there just standing there...thinking i'm swimming....so i begin the swim....i've never swam so hard in my life yet the tide keep pulling me so i was really just swimming in place....eventually my dad starts to walk toward me...that's when i started yelling 'help'....so i'm swimming but it's still pulling me...couple times i go under....my dad is now running at this point but i'm getting tired....there was point where i didn't think he was gonna make it....the tide was just too strong.....so i gave it one last push and swam as hard as i could and finally got out of the riptide....just as my dad got there

parents....teach your children to swim as early as possible

AmentsChick

I almost died from a kidney infection several years go.

Jeremy1012

catefrances wrote:

when i held the cooling body of an addict lover.

:( fucking hell...