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After class today I was walking to my car and about a block before I got there I witnessed a lady make a left turn straight into a guy crossing the street. He actually pulled a movie stunt and jumped onto the hood right before she hit him. After she stopped he seemed all right as the driver and he only talked a minute before she drove off. He was shaken up but after collecting himself a moment he walked the other direction.
My personal closest brush with death was a car accident around 10 years ago. It was a Saturday around 7pm and my brother was driving us home from having spent the afternoon downtown. It was snowing and the roads weren't particularly bad. Living in Wisconsin, driving in bad weather comes natural and it's not really something that concerns my family. So, undeterred and about 3 miles from home my brother started to merge into the 1 lane, and that's when it happened.
The van starts to slowly drift side ways and instead of seeing the road in front of the windshield, I instead see the head lights shining onto a power station by the roadside surrounded by cement slabs. I remember clinching my right armrest but neither my brother or I spoke a word. BAM. A gigantic collision with the cement slab after going into the ditch sideways knocks the wind out of me as the van starts to roll. It's a surreal experience and feeling and everything you've heard or read about slow motion is true. The last thing I remember is a sudden rush of light as the headlights found their way into the ground as we slammed down a final time.
I woke up probably just 30 seconds later. The smell of wrecked car seeped into my nose and I struggled to talk as a radiating pain shot out from my chest. After what seemed like a few minutes I heard my brother ask an, "Are you all right?". I managed a yes, and we both slowly made our way out of the windows that had broken as the doors were jammed shut. I distinctly remember my first line as we stepped back and looked at eachother and the van:
"I think I pissed my pants." My brother laughed.
Topic: Have you ever had a near death experience? Funny, absurd, or just interesting?
And for the record: I didn't pee my pants. The soda I had spilled in my lap.
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not rly a near death experience but one that ill never forget
i was 14 or 15 and it was a huge blizzard outside. my dad wasnt home so i had to use the snow machine to clear the way (a good 9-11 inches of snow). so im using it for 20 minutes and soon the snow is so much the thing jams. so me being an idiot sticks my hand under there to remove it WITHOUT turning teh machine off. as soon as i remove teh chunk of solid ice from the mower the plastic knocks my hand out and numbed it for a good week. doesnt sound liek much until my friend's dad has 1 thats bladed 
yea i was rly lucky there
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My brother and I had to bail out(he lost control traveling south due to extremely high winds) of our family Cessna 152 four years ago at about 2000 feet and my parachute didn't open all the way. Somehow I just broke my left ankle.
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I once held my breath 4 minutes under water, which I wrote a blog about and people tell me I could have died.. I guess I was pretty near-accident right thur ^^, but I honestly think I had control of the situation
Edit: Word fuckup
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I got barreled by a wave once while I was body boarding and I literally rode the inside of the barrel upside down and back down again until the wave smashed down and kept me under water for what seemed like minutes. I was totally disoriented and swimming down, the current was holding me even though I was swimming vigorously, I finally smashed into the sandy murky floor and started to struggle swimming the opposite direction. It's such a weird feeling when you re reference yourself to your surroundings. I made it up but I was gasping and sooo close to drowning.
Also when I was a kid and lived in oregon I went to some mountain (mt ashland or shasta or something) with the boyscout troop. A friend and I took our tobogon and sleds out to find fresh powder and explore. We came across a perfect cool slide onto a completely flat meadow. We went up and down a few times until one time my friend's leg broke through the snow and came out soaked. We realized the that meadow was actually a frozen lake.
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every time i got into a car that my sister was driving. that's a lot of near death experiences considering she drove me to school/from school for an entire year of high school.
i still have nightmares to this day.
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Back in '05 I jumped into the deep end of swimming pool, that day I learned I couldn't swim. So after I almost drowned I decided to jump again for some reason. I was most likely thinking "well I know what to expect this time." That's how I almost drowned twice in a 10-minute span.
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I was almost run over by a 53' when on my bike when I was 12.
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On January 20 2010 07:33 DrTJEckleburg wrote:
My brother and I had to bail out(he lost control traveling south due to extremely high winds) of our family Cessna 152 four years ago at about 2000 feet and my parachute didn't open all the way. Somehow I just broke my left ankle.
Jesus, must have beem scary to fall 2000 feet with a parachute half opened.
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Eh the closest I have ever come to death (not that close) was when me and a friend were driving back home for thanksgiving break. He had just gotten a thingy to plug his ipod into the radio and he was playing with it as he drove. It was snowing a bit and the roads were slicker then normal. He says to me "Kyle tell me if we are about to die" then starts to play with his device. So the car starts drifting a bit toward the side of the highway road and I mention this. He however kinda overreacted and made a sharp adjustment. Due to the slick roads the car started to slide and eventually he adjusted again and we slide to the side of the road and slammed into the median instead of traffic.
Just glad no cars were close to us or could have been a lot worse.
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I'm copy pasting this from an old blog of mine
I was going to leave for work and it turns out it snowed about a foot last night (no joke and we hadn't seen a speck of snow since last winter). So I get my JEEP CHEROKEE cleaned off and PUT IT IN 4WD. I go to leave my driveway which is at like a 40 degree slope and usually ices over but I figured since it was plowed, I don't know, five minutes ago it'd be fine. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, as soon as I hit the slope I have no brakes at all. The kicker is the road my driveway is on is the main road into my town with a speedlimit of 40 mph. The best part is there are three cars coming (luckily all in the lane closest to me). So I floor it into the other lane's ditch and the other car does a 180 in it's lane. No one was hurt or even touched another car but holy shit that could have been bad.
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got clipped by oncoming traffic on my bike on a busy LA street, luckily i was able to wobble to sidewalk where i proceeded to crash and eat shit. I remember not being able to get up for a few minutes, but i got away with a heavily bruised shoulder and just some cuts.
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On January 20 2010 07:33 DrTJEckleburg wrote:
My brother and I had to bail out(he lost control traveling south due to extremely high winds) of our family Cessna 152 four years ago at about 2000 feet and my parachute didn't open all the way. Somehow I just broke my left ankle.
WTF holy shit
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On January 20 2010 07:33 DrTJEckleburg wrote:
My brother and I had to bail out(he lost control traveling south due to extremely high winds) of our family Cessna 152 four years ago at about 2000 feet and my parachute didn't open all the way. Somehow I just broke my left ankle.
Wow man, glad you made it!
One Sunday morning I was driving to meet my friend in a town for a morning coffee after we drunk whole night before. I was really tired and not really fully awake as I sat into my car. When I checked for incoming traffic I started to get on the main road and then this guy was all of the sudden driving like crazy into me just as I was half the way on the road. As I tried to speed up and get across he turned into my lane and crashed right into my side of the car with like 70-80km/h. My car was thrown 5m away in a ditch, which only stopped my car from sliding further. Dunno how I gone thru that only with big fat bruise on my ribcage, and few scratches and bruises here and there.
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Being a dipshit and boogie boarding as a 14 year old at about 11pm in the crappy, riptide-loaded waters of the Jersey Shore. I was pretty sure I'd either drown or turn into some kind of huge super hero by swimming into a half used steriod syringe.
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I had a severe cough about a year ago and was coughing up flegm regularly. Nothing to weird there I guess. But one night I must have coughed in my sleep alot cause I woke up and couldn't breathe. So I ran out into my Flat's corridor banging on everyones door and the American I was staying with came out and heimliched me but nothing happened, so I went into the kitchen and as I turned the light on I remember thinking "Shit, I can't breathe and haven't for about a minute and a half, and there's nothing I can do about it." And the worst part of it was that I wasn't even choking properly, it was just gunk. So I keep trying to cough hard and vomit into the sink and force my fingers down my throat to try and gag it up.
Meantime one of my room mates has called NHS and been put through to NHS24 (our beyond shit helpline) and another one has called one of the wardens (I stayed in this big stretch of student flats with wardens). So the guy on the phone with NHS eventually starts swearing at them, and by this point I'm starting to black out, and a warden comes in holding a phone on the line with NHS24. But they need to speak to me before anyone gets sent over, so that would have basically have been that had I not managed to retch out the most disgusting pile of bile onto the sink at that moment, after what had apparantly been 4 minutes of not breathing.
Apparantly this quite a common (well not uncommon anyway) way to die, so..ugh. Was really unpleasant, and I'm still deeply paranoid of going to sleep with a cough.
Moral of the story - UK health service sucks if you actually need them.
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Seeing the responses, makes me wonder...
Poll: Near death reason
(Vote): Car accident
(Vote): Car on ice accident
(Vote): Other
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My near death experience was at a birthday party at a pool back in 3rd grade. It was a public pool, so pretty big and all. Pretty damn near death too.
So somehow I passed out and drifted all the way to the bottom of the deep end. I don't remember anything from this at all. The witness accounts said that the lifeguard saw me and pulled me out after I had been underwater for a while. The fire dept came and administered CPR and then the ambulance came to take me to the hospital. I was in a coma for 2 weeks, and all the doctors told my parents that I was never going to wake up, or that I would just be a vegetable for the rest of my 'life.' All this was told to me by other people, of course.
The first thing that I remember after being at the party is waking up in a hospital bed with tubes coming out of my nose. I actually have a scar at the bridge of my nost because I rubbed it some much while the tubes were in it. I was OK after that, and was able to go home without any problems. I'm glad I survived though.
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Dont think this qualifies as a "Near death experience" But i thought i had died when i was on DMT.
i said to myself that i cant no fucking way possible experience something like this, I MUST HAVE DIED!
when i later came to my senses and the drug wore off i sat paralized for what seemed an eternity
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