Whats the closest to death you think you have been?

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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    Jason P wrote:
    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.

    I did with the NFC Championship last season
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  • battan1120
    battan1120 Posts: 310
    6-18-1983 I ate 8 hits of acid.Dropped like a rock,came out of my body with angels surrounding me,walked thru the tunnel with the light at the end.God told me it wasn't my time.Went back into my body.Had the worst of my life.Needless to say it was the last time that I ever dosed.
    The bus came by and I got on!!!!!
  • finnannie
    finnannie Posts: 1,186
    When I was younger, about 13, I almost walked infront of a speeding bus - couldnt see it coming behind another bus. But some guy pulled me back and practically saved my life, never got to thank him - it all happened so fast.

    Last year, had taken some painkillers and sedatives and drank a bottle of whiskey - - not trying to harm myself intentionally. I guess I was having a bad week.. I don't really remember much, a week lost in time. I guess I had opened up quite a bit to my friends, and bled my soul to them, since after that I've had several moments of ""how the fuck do you know that""... damn. I could have died doing something stupid, everyone says I had acted like a freak the whole week. If only I could remember it myself... :D maybe its better I dont, god knows what I''ve said and done then..

    I guess I could have killed myself when I was really depressed, but never did that, music saved me (= pj).

    Oh the memories, the memories.. I'm glad I'm still alive.

    :)
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  • PatrickBateman
    PatrickBateman Posts: 2,243
    I DID die for a few seconds when I was in surgery after rupturing my spleen from a bike accident.

    No light, no nothing though. I didn't even know until the doctor told me afterwards
    If a man speaks in a forest and there is no woman around to hear him, is he still wrong?
  • AmentsChick
    AmentsChick Posts: 6,969
    PatrickBateman wrote:
    No light, no nothing though. I didn't even know until the doctor told me afterwards

    Sounds like you were jipped!
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    I almost drowned twice, once in Casco Bay, Big Lake Sebago Maine I got knocked unconcious by a overturned canoe. A friend jumped in and saved me, the same in a pool in SC and again someone jumped in and saved me.

    I learned to swim from my 4 year old who became a star competitive swimmer. I must say she is very good.

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  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    I was 7 and playing on some rocks at the ocean with my dad...we didn't know there were "outsider" waves every 3rd or 4th wave that would crash up and over the rocks. needless to say the wave came up and over my head, and all i remember was my dad jumping on top of me so I wouldn't be pulled out into the ocean. It was pretty friggin scary.
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • HushBull
    HushBull Posts: 996
    Seriously, and this makes me consider myself pretty darn lucky/pathetic.

    At the tender age of 12-13, I was sitting at home, by myself. Shitty parents had to, "work"...anyways, I decided, orange. I want a fucking orange. I will eat that damn orange and I will do it well!
    That's what I did, got up, got an orange, sat back down. Everything is cool.
    I begin pealing it. Everything is as usual. I take the first few bites of the juicy, orangey colored fruit. That's when it strikes!
    It begins with a simple lodging of white pith in my throat, soon it becomes gasps for air and a fight for my survival. It is truly a terrifying scene. I began contemplating my existence and my choice of fruits I chose to eat while walking the Earth, what sort of impact it all had. Finally! Seconds later, I cough it up slightly and spit it out into the trash. Phewww...
    "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"
  • Urban Hiker
    Urban Hiker Posts: 1,312
    fowls wrote:
    Probably the two times my heart stopped beating and they had to use the refribulators on me. :cool:

    I've flatlined as well, for about a minute or so. I was only six months old, so I don't remember. I had an asthma attack and was BLUE by the time my mom got me to Children's. I was touch and go for a while. Not enough meds and I couldn't breathe, too many meds and I my heart rate would skyrocket.

    My husband has flatlined as well. It's one of those cute things we have in common. :rolleyes:

    He remembers his. He was 13, in school and had a sudden heart attack due to an irregular beat. He says he remembers everything the docs were saying and he had a view of it all from above.
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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    I have hydrocephalus, which means an excess of cerebrospinal fluid to the brain. This explains all my bad jokes.

    Not really... I have a 'shunt' which maintains a proper flow of cerebrospinal fluid around the body and also maintains a normal pressure in my brain. One morning just over two years ago my shunt blocked, failed, malfunctioned, which meant that I temporarily lost the power of coherent speech, suffered migrains like sledgehammers to the forehead and then slipped into a coma. Needless to say, they had to rush me to hospital and replace my shunt that night or I could've died.

    For the next two weeks I was in hospital slowly regaining normal brain functioning. I tripped like I was having kegs of LSD every day, suffered temporary amnesia, and didn't know or recognise anyone, not even my wife of the time, until my new shunt started working right.
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  • Pauk
    Pauk Posts: 1,084
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    I've flatlined as well, for about a minute or so. I was only six months old, so I don't remember. I had an asthma attack and was BLUE by the time my mom got me to Children's. I was touch and go for a while. Not enough meds and I couldn't breathe, too many meds and I my heart rate would skyrocket.

    My husband has flatlined as well. It's one of those cute things we have in common. :rolleyes:

    He remembers his. He was 13, in school and had a sudden heart attack due to an irregular beat. He says he remembers everything the docs were saying and he had a view of it all from above.
    I didn't get a tunnel or a light or an out of body experience!
    It was just like I was asleep, and then I woke up. Didn't know what happened until I was told a few weeks later (when I was in a stable condition). To be honest I was blacking out so often that I can't even pin it down in my memory.
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  • Slip Kid
    Slip Kid Posts: 1,175
    Being actually dead for about 3 minutes, the day after my open heart surgery. . . good times
    I just don't trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn't die.
  • StuffnJunk
    StuffnJunk Posts: 897
    one time at the beach i was getting sucked out to sea by the undertow, a lifeguard jumped in and saved me....i am a real shitty swimmer and i would not have made it back to shore alone...when i walked in my house later i had this weird feeling like - if things had been a little different, i wouldn't be home right now...

    another time i was in NYC and i was about to step into the street and a bus zoomed by, i couldn't see it cuz my view was blocked......if i had been walking the slightest bit faster i would have stepped right in front of the bus

    probably a few more but these 2 really stand out in my mind
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  • deadnote
    deadnote Posts: 1,678
    i was riding in aan aaambulance aand i thought i was gonna die
    set your laughter free

    dreamer in my dream

    we got the guns

    i love you,but im..............callin out.........callin out
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
    RolandTD20Kdrummer Posts: 13,066
    I jumped from a 10 story balcony

    But I just stood up again and dusted myself off like in the Matrix...
    Progress is not made by everyone joining some new fad,
    and reveling in it's loyalty. It's made by forming coalitions
    over specific principles, goals, and policies.

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  • skyeriverwinter
    skyeriverwinter Posts: 1,901
    the closest i've come to death is when i was 5. my step dad beat me so badly i ended up in the hospital and needed surgery.
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    skyeriverwinter wrote:
    the closest i've come to death is when i was 5. my step dad beat me so badly i ended up in the hospital and needed surgery.

    jesus christ....

    what a fucking animal...

    How the fuck could anyone do that?
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  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    actually it was pretty bad....I had fallen off like a 60-story building wearing only....my....

    wait that was a dream...shit! I'll have to get back to this
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. wrote:
    actually it was pretty bad....I had fallen off like a 60-story building wearing only....my....

    wait that was a dream...shit! I'll have to get back to this

    real stuff only :p
    These cuts are leaving creases. Trace the scars to fit the pieces, to tell the story, you don't need to say a word.
  • StateOfLoveBoatCptn.
    StateOfLoveBoatCptn. Posts: 904
    libragirl wrote:
    real stuff only :p
    aye aye captain! wait, thats me

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