I Almost Died

[Guest D. Resurrected]

About a month ago I went to a pheonix rave called the landing zone.Anyway the rave was awsome and everything and them me and my friends were leaving and my friends car fell into a wash with sand.We were stuck in the dessert for 15 hour at 114 degrees.But luckaly some ATV'rs saved use and now Im ok.Man thats when it sucks to live in Arizona

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So two the point.I thought Idd make a thread were Id ask

Has anyone had any life or death experiances?Please explain

P.S. Im in the middle

[Raiyuu]

[font=trebuchet ms]The closest I've ever come to a near-death experience was on holiday in Lanzarote, years ago. My cap blew off and went over a cliff and I nearly chased it over! I had one of those cinematic moments where you skid to a halt with your toes over the edge. I didn't really register the danger at the time. I was more concerned about my hat.[/font]

[Delta]

[COLOR=#656445][SIZE=1]^ Must be a pretty special hat. Here's another one 'bout a cliff (mining pits, actually):

Just last April, we were assigned to take rock samples from a river in the boondocks and had to pass through an abandoned mining district on the way there. The locals told us not to go 'cause our vehicle can't handle it but then again, they were also the ones who said we can't make it go up a certain slope in the area (we busted the rear end but we made it in one piece!).

Anyways, the road was really bumpy, yeah? And when it wasn't cracked or straddled by ravines, it clung to the mountain and tipped towards the pits. We realized only after some hundred meters (and with a good 2 kilometers to go) into the road that we were knee-deep in this **** and cannot turn back. Also, we cannot get off the minibus; doing so would mean taking off the only things that keeps it from bouncing too much and falling off. And there many instances where we all actually had to shift to one side(the one farther from the cliff) so that the minibus won't rollover and hurtle down the steep slope.

Wheeee!!![/SIZE][/COLOR]

[2010DigitalBoy]

I've got a few, but here's the first that comes to mind.

It was when I was 6 years old and my family had recently moved into a new house with an above-ground pool. We had just finished cleaning it, but it was already night time, so we just decided to go in for a little bit. My bro (5) and I went in and were standing near the wall, the water being about 3 feet deep (i was about 4' tall). I look at my mom and go 'I'm going in the middle, if I start drowning, you gotta save me' and she goes 'well, you should try to save yourself.'

Ironically, the pool gets way deep all of a sudden and I shoot down. I was underwater struggling for nearly a full minute, but then I felt something grab me. What's funny is, and I'll never forget this, te first thought that goes through my head is "HELP! I'M DROWNING AND BEING KIDNAPPED!" but really my mom had just jumoed in and saved me XD

[PaganAngel]

The only thing I could think of was the time I had a fever of 105. I was totally delusional. Couldn't see straight, couldn't think straight, everything was funny colors... yeah, illness is the best I've got. I keep it on the safe side.

OH WAIT! I just remembered a really good one!

I was in Vegas (we all know where this story's going... XD, kidding. I was with my mom), and we were at the Mandalay Bay (a.k.a. the longest distance I've ever walked while still inside). We were walking up this hallway, and this tall, black guy in a suit sprints towards us. He dropped something on the floor- it was black, and judging from the clattering noise, plastic. The object slid across the floor, and came to a halt about 6 inches from my feet. The guy races by, scoops up the object, and looks me straight in the eye, and he's gone. Then a few moments later whole army of 50 or more security guards flies by us (well, it was more of a float than a fly... they really need to get the security guys off the donuts, but that's neither here nor there). It wasn't until we were in the airport the next day that we found out that that guy had robbed the casino, and that he had a loaded gun that he did fire in the parking lot. I put two and two together and realized that object he dropped was the gun... and I was so close I almost accidentally kicked it away! It was truly bizarre.

[Horendithas]

[COLOR=Sienna]The closest I?ve ever come to dying is when my brother and I were walking home from getting a soda at the local gas station. The person doing the shooting wasn?t really aiming at my brother, or me but at a rival gang member that lived in the home we were walking in front of. Naturally my brother and I tried to avoid the gunfire when the person in the car started shooting. I was unharmed, but my brother was killed by the crossfire. [/COLOR]

[Panda]

[quote name='indifference][COLOR=Sienna']I was unharmed, but my brother was killed by the crossfire. [/COLOR][/quote]
*hugs* I'm sorry for your loss, that is something no one should ever have to experience.

I'm like Tical and had a near drowning experience. When I was around 6 years old I was at a birthday party at a friend's house. It was a pool party (in ground) and I really didn't know how to swim very well. I was boppin' around in the shallow end of the pool towards the middle when my foot slipped into the deep end.

I sank like a rock and started to freak out. I tried my best to reach the edge of the pool but was just too small to reach the side. Just as I was giving up all hope I hit the bottom and decided to give it one really hard push up. I managed to reach the side and pull myself up. I was totally exausted and couldn't even talk for several minutes. Everyone was freaked out when they realized what had happened to me.

My second near death experience was when I had a major allergic reaction to medication. I ended up in the hospital and missed 2 months of school durning my 7th grade year. That was a real bummer. The Pastor for my church even came to my bed side to talk to me about Heaven. :animedepr

[2010DigitalBoy]

I've had two dangerous boogie-boarding incidents, but one in particular was crazy. I went under the wave and immediately my face was planted in the shell-covered sand. the rest of my body continued to move, almost snapping my neck. Then another wave came and throttled me. I thought I was dead for a few seconds, then my face started to hurt >_<

[Ezekiel]

[SIZE=1][quote name='Panda']The Pastor for my church even came to my bed side to talk to me about Heaven. :animedepr[/quote]

Woah, talk about encouraging. =/

I've also had my fair share of water experiences. I lived in South Africa and used to 'body board', which is like surfing but not as extreme. I've always been a strong swimmer because I've been trained to since I was about four, but my board got flipped by a large wave and because I was attached to it by a cord, I was pulled under. I was very disorientated but managed to break the surface when I was washed up into the shallows. Luckily I hadn't been very far out or that could have been much worse. My mum can't swim, either, haha.

My dad and I also got lost on a mountain once when the cloud came down. He ended up having to carry me most of the way down because my feet were bleeding and I couldn't wear my shoes. =/ We ended up having to be rescued by the mountain park's rangers after about 8 hours of walking. Turns out we'd climbed too high and had gone over the top of the fence without realising, which is why we couldn't find the path again. I doubt I was anywhere close to dying, but it was scary enough.

[B]Edit[/B]: Woah, Tical, we must have started replying at the same time. Scary, XD[/SIZE]

[Darth Vectis]

[COLOR=DarkGreen][SIZE=1]Hmm, this is interesting. I think I'll take a shot at this.

Never had an underwater experince but I did have this really weird one in 4th grade I believe it was. There was this kid who was always pissed off for some reason, and he always acted out so he always got suspended and then he would come back and a week later it would happen again. But anyways, this kid had been sharpening these pair of scissors all day. No the little child safe ones, but the regular ones.

And he had been sharpening that badboy so he could go and stab one of my friends, I really don't know why but he was gonna do it. So he starts walking up to my friend, scissors in hand, ready to do his damage. But, lucky for my friend, I came along and blocked his one path to get my friend. So this kids plan changes, he decideds to stab me first then go for my friend.

He walks up and pushes these scissors into my side, I feel the points cut through my shirt and break skin. So by reflex I snatched him by the throat and squeezed, he ends up dropping the scissors and I keep squeezing. Was way to pissed that he was trying to kill me to really let go, then had like three guys pull me off. So you can say it was a bad day for both of us.[/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Nomurah!]

[B]Umm, let see... Don't ever let a seven year old drive a giant ATV...Oy... When I was small, and seven, it was summer, and me and my sis were riding the four-wheeler on a hill, and well, she just had to let me drive... :animesmil We hit a rock, and flipped over, and literally rolled down the hill. That hurt...The only time I've ever been unconicious was under a leaking four-wheeler. I woke up with my sister trying to get me out from under the ATV. I was all wet, and I thought I had wet myself. Well, guess not, cuz it was gasoline leaking from the bottom of the ATV...Oy..don't ride on hills with seven year olds...[/B]

[I]EDIT: We started at the same time Sin! [/I]

[Fyxe]

[size=1][color=slategray]I never had much luck with diseases when I was younger. The only one that nearly killed me was when I was four. I'd gotten Kawasaki disease, which, apparently, is a very rare sickness in children. I guess they are born with it or something, I don't remember.
Anyway. My temperature sky-rocketed and I refused to eat or drink. Since every part of my body was too busy trying to fight the disease, it wasn't focused on the essentials. I was never hungry, never thirsty. So, I wasn't absorbing any nutrients and I was always dehydrated. Yet, none of the doctors could figure out what was wrong with me. They continued to take spinal taps(though I don't remember them... I must have blocked them out of my mind or something...) and tried to force me to eat, etc.
So, basically, I was wasting away. I'd been in the hospital for about two months before a doctor came along that knew what was wrong. She diagnosed me with Kawasaki and started putting me on medication and an IV. I recovered a few weeks later.

If that doctor hadn't come along, I can't say I'd be here typing this right now.

I've had a few water experiences, but nothing too bad. If I explained it, I'm sure I'd make it sound overdramatic. But I always ended up getting pulled out by the hair. Huh. XD[/color][/size]

[Frankie]

I have a few but onl one is a real "oh god save her before shes dead" kind of moments.

The first one is the less of them all I guess. I was really young nad we were living on a farm. Me and my two sisters were on the back of a long flat trailer that my dad was hauling up the hill. Something went wrong and the chain broke and the trailer went rolling down the hill. Both sisters leaped off but I was sos young i guess i was terrified in my spot. It was slow at first but the hill was huge and bumpy so it would have sped up. My sister (the oldest) leaped in front of it while it was still going slow enough for her to actually avoid being hit and she got my attention and she caught me as I jumped. The trailer veered off its downhill course and CRASHED into a fence post. The post was bent ALL the way over in like a 90 degree angle. That would have been my sister .... Ok so sure it was more like my sisters experiance but at the time i thought if it had went all the way down the hill at top speed, when it hit something i would have died, thats a little kids mind for you.

Now the second one, another little kid story, We were all at the beach, yay, and I had my favorite doll with me (some cheap version of a barbi, she had red hair) anyways me and my two sisters are running along the wet sand playing when suddenly I fall. The wave washes up over me and i begin to roll. I dont know WHICH direction I am at this point but later i learned i was "heading out to sea" but both of my sisters thought i was rolling and playing in the water so they ran along next to me and laughed. My mother finally got to me before the wave took me to far out. However i was more devastated that my "barbie is headed for japan" as i said over and over again once i realized the ocean stole her. *nods* Yeah pathetic.

The last is pretty major and minor at the same time.

It is pretty simple. In the middle of the night i quit breathing. I was asleep and didnt wake up. Thankfully at that time my sister was waking up from the noises i was making, I apparently was gasping for breaht in my sleep, unable to actually restart my breathing, Anyways she yanked me up and shook me awake. A minute later i was breathing about but terrified to sleep again. This has happend several times when i was a little kid and my mom would catch it. Since my highschool one though It has not happend again.

[Ikillion]

[COLOR=#af992f][SIZE=1][FONT=Comic Sans MS]Ooh almost death things, these all sound intresting yet, very horrible to actually expirence. So far I can only recall two that come to mind.

The first one happened when I was around six or seven. For some odd reason I was out up in a tree. Now why I was up in a tree I don't know, but I am certain that it must have been durring the summer time because the tree had absolutly no leaves on it. So being the stupid and mindless kid I was, I jumped off some part of the tree and I don't know where exactly on my back it was, but a treebranch ripped up the length of my back. I don't know how deep it went, since I can't obviously look at my back. but I know it hurt for almost a month afterwards, and yeah. I still jump off of trees anyways.

The next one I think happened just two or three years ago when I was out shooting fireworks out in the country with one of my Mom's co-workers. So the day goes by and quickly turns to night. We have already shot just about all the explosives that we could find at eachother. It was finally time to shoot off some of the larger fireworks, the ones that all go sparkle and razamatazz in the sky. Well apparently one of the tubes that we use to launch those fireworks was broken without our knowledge, it would loose a lot of its thrusting power through a crack in the bottom. Of course all of the spectators around us just clapped thinking we had everything under control. So when we went to launch one of the larger ones, we set it up and fired it. It probaly went about ten feet or so in the air, and to keep in mind this things have a blast radius of about twenty to thirty feet. It was odd when just about all seven of us just stood and watched the thing fly and not move at all. The only though that I think that ran through our minds was "Oh...****" then it exploded, the last thing I remember seeing was all of the sparkles and such then I turned and went face first into the ground.

When I opened my eyes again just about the whole field was dotted with small fires, my hair was on fire, as with part of my shirt. So I just patted my hair down like crazy and threw off my shirt. The first thing that came to mind is that if the fire got to the other fireworks then we were all screwed. Luckly it didn't and nobody was hurt to badly let off some light burns and such. Yet I still find that time off since having an afro may have possibly saved my scalp from getting burrned. Yet I still do the same thing ever 4th of July and New years eve. Its fun, even if it is dangerous.[/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[SunfallE]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]I don?t recall my first brush with death as I wasn?t even a year old. Apparently I had gotten double pneumonia and if I didn?t respond to the antibiotics the doctor had told my mom that I could die within the next twenty four hours. Fortunately I did get better.

The next time I do remember, but only vaguely. I was almost five years old and my mom was visiting one of our relatives in Texas who has their own pool in their backyard. I?d never been swimming before and had no concept of the idea that you even needed to know how to swim. According to my mom once she had me in my swimsuit and I went outside, I just ran for the pool and jumped in. I didn?t know there was a deep end and a shallow end to the pool and I jumped into the deep end. She saw me jump in and immediately ran outside and jumped in herself to pull me out. So luckily I wasn?t underwater long enough to drown.

The next one I?m not even sure if it counts. I was outside during a storm when lighting struck so close that I got pushed backwards by the sudden change in air pressure. I suppose if the lightning had hit me it might have killed me, but having it hit close enough for me to feel the pressure of the superheated air, along with the loud thunder certainly scared me pretty good.

The most recent one happened just a short while ago. I got an infection in my throat that was literally cutting off my ability to breathe. It was horribly painful and I couldn?t eat or drink. The doctor put me on antibiotics that were so powerful they made me sick and the pain meds were awful. They worked, but I absolutely hate the muddled feeling they can give you. It didn?t help when the doctor warned me to immediately call 911 to be taken to the hospital for emergency surgery if the meds he gave me didn?t work. They did, for which I?m grateful, I hate needles more than I hate taking meds. [/COLOR]

[Sangome]

[color=pink]This is kind of minor, but I felt it should be said none-the-less.

The only near-death experience I could think of is when I was about nine-ish or so. I was swimming in what they call the "Big pool" at our local pool. I jumped off in the 6 foot zone, and I suddenly lost my footing and started to gasp for breath (ordinarily, I never had that sort of problem before). Thankfully two girls were there and pulled me to the side of the pool. I wasn't able to swim anywhere above six feet for the next four years. XD[/color]