Have you ever been close to death?
well, two days ago I was in a river, suddenly a flood came and it was nearly to kill me, I save my life for ten second (thanks guardian angel ) it was in the middle of an electrical storm, so after that I heard "don't fear the reaper by Bluey oyster cult, it was The most beautiful, happy and peaceful moment in my life.

So Have you ever been close to death? how did you felt after save you life?, what have you done after that?

Well, I´m enjoying a nice pneumonia at the moment. It might be deadly
But prolly not- It´s more like a holiday for me because the doctor told me to not go to school....

Alka'mael - that's scary! You were lucky to make it!

I've had a few occasions, like falling off a cliff ledge when I was a kid and just by one inch missed the sharp rocks at the bottom and escaped with just lost breath and bruises. Also I'm allergic to wasp stings so every time I get stung by a wasp I need my adrenaline shot within 20 minutes or I literally drop dead. Luckily I've always had the shot at handy when I've needed it. And lucky is that. To me as allergic to their venom a sting is the most painful thing imaginable.

I don't think it changed me much though, I've been more affected by family dying and by them being very ill and so on.


Aaaaand that Blue Oyster Cult song is one of my all times fav song. Offtopic.

This might sound rather ridiculous and funny to some of you, but I was once just few centimetres from getting the head of a Croquet mallet in my head. I and a friend played (alcohol involved ) and my friend missed his ball and the head flew off the mallet, flying by my head at a very high speed. It was massive wood, so I am pretty certain I would have been hurt very badly had I been a few centimetres more right, might even have died. I was shocked for a short while, then laughed. I guess that's a bizar, yet natural reaction to a near death experience

I don't find that funny at all

*lies*

that's why doctor says alcohol is dangerous for your health

I don't think I've been close to death, except for one time I jumped in the water without realizing how deep it was. The lifeguard was right there, though. I was also in a pretty severe car accident, but my car had airbags....only, it wasn't supposed to.

But I did have someone literally die in my arms. I'm a former Certified Nurses Aide, and I used to work at a house for the elderly. One night a gentleman came out and sat down in the middle of the night. He said he felt like he was dying. I took it to mean he was being his usual crotchety self, until he lost consciousness. He was gone that quick, and we weren't allowed to resuscitate him. (According to the law, you can allow doctors to revive you, or not.) Apparently his whole family had heart trouble, but he had lived the longest. Still, he was only in his 70's.

One incident wasn't a very serious one. It was my first day trying to learn swimming and in the absence of the trainer, i tried doing it myself and choked underwater. I choked for about 4-5 seconds till the trainer pulled me up by the hair. Since then, I haven't stepped into water. That triggered my hydrophobia

The second one I had was a bit more serious though. I was in the hospital with a bronchial lung disease. I had been there for round 2 weeks, and once my fever crossed 105 degrees Fahrenheit. The doctors said 105 degrees leads straight to coma, and when they found out my temperature, they used all the ice bags and everything. I was unconscious. 105 degrees temperature stayed for about 7 minutes, and the docs said i was lucky not to get into coma.

No, i was two hours ahead.
but i watched someone die.

I don't know have I been that close to death, but my parents have told me that when I was little I cried and screamed so loudly that I went unconscious. Mum started to shake me and I resuscitated.

I'm sure it wasn't funny then but nowadays it is.

Speaking of that, my little nephew (less than 2 years) have the habit to cry until run out of breath. First time I saw her she scared the hell out of me - she was crying (again) for something silly, and then suddenly stopped. When I turned to see her, she was already turned blue. Thanks God, my aunt was there to react in time (blowing air back in her mouth). I was shocked, but my aunt wasn't. When I asked her why, she said that my nephew is doing that all the time and she is used to it. That happened several times in my presence. Still scares the hell out of me

^ oh my god, I'd be dead scared to know a baby risks dying so often!
I hope she gets well soon

She really likes to play with the death. This summer her family were visiting my family. Somehow she found some hidden pills and swallowed them all. Another near death experience, but they took her to hospital in time. Luckily for me I wasn't anywhere near then.
Worst part? She have a sister, 4 years old. She is not that bad as her little sister, but she is just real pain in the (put a word here)...

My biology teacher has just died, one of the best teacher I've ever have. It's Look like death surround me

I had a near death experience at the age of 4. I went out to visit Niagara Falls, NY/Canada and me and my brother we're getting a picture of us taken on these rocks that were just settled in the near middle of the flowing water. Right after the picture was taken, my brother gets off the rocks first. So right as I was getting off, my left leg slipped on one of the rocks and soon before you know it, my whole body slipped as I was plummeted into the flowing water. After that happens, I had that feeling of shock while I was scared to death. Since I knew how to swim (thank God I learned at an early age), I swam to the edge of the land and extended my tiny arms out, and my mom came and dragged me out of the water really hard. The moment I slipped, she got scared for her life, pushed my brother to the ground, and ran after me to get me out of there. At the time, my dad was unable to do rarely anything due to early stages of multiple-sclorosis (which is a serious and almost critical back pain that can almost leave you paralyzed I believe), so my mom had to do everything for me and my brother since we were young at the time. If my mom never made it near me, I probably would have lost my grip and I would have fallen off Niagara Falls while in the water, and I was about 10-20 inches near the end of the line. Not only did my mom saved me but I also saved myself. From that point on, I knew God existed but I was too young to get that in my head. Crazy experience yet I'm still alive today.

I also have tried committing suicide a few times but all those 3 tries failed thanks to me having a clear mind and me having God in my life.

My cousin's mother died last week from breast cancer It's not fair! She was my mother's age and had a little kid to take care of.

I have problems with my blood pressure, anemia and type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Nuff' said.

I think I know how you feel. Partially, at least.
There is something I've been wanting to write here, it's kind of on topic, I guess.. at least I really felt like I was close to death.

December 2005, I was always feeling weak: I literally didn't have the strenght to stand up from the chair! I was feeling like life was being drained out of me, like I was fading away, like a powerless little flame. I really felt that I was dying... and I was perfectly fine with that: it wasn't the happiest period of my life, and anyway I didn't have the strenght nor the will to fight back. I was giving in, I was feeling like I was slowly leaving life and I could do nothing about it. I didn't want to do anything about it: I wanted it to end. Also because I was always thirsty, no matter how much water I could drink, thirst would never leave me. It's terrible, believe me.
And I was losing more and more weight, without any reason. I'd become so thin, I was scary! I was a skeleton!
Moreover, nobody was believing me: they kept telling me it was 'just' depression, that it was my fault and I should have been more positive about life. This was making me even more demotivated.

Weeks later I had a blood test, and that's when I was diagnosed type 1 diabetes.
They said I'd arrived there "on my own two feet" just in time, because I was about to fall in a coma. Probably true: that morning I could barely walk from the car to the hospital
I remeber the exact moment when the nurse injected me some insulin and gave me a re-hydrating drip: I felt I was being born again. It's not a metaphor: it's exactly how I felt! Like I was breathing for the first time, like I had just come back to the world (turned out I was very dehydrated: I'd lost 6 kilos of water...). It's a sensation I'll never forget. And I was feeling like all the strenght I'd been deprived for months was coming back altogether. And all my will to live was back too, stronger than ever

And what was very funny... is that from that moment on for the people around me, I was "ill", while from that moment on, for me, I was sane! They were quite puzzled with "how well I'd reacted to the news i had diabetes", but.. from my point of view, I was finally feeling fine.

end of the story, thank you for reading and really sorry for annoying you..

Mine are really more in the lines of "it could have been a near-death experience" but they never have turned out that bad. My friend almost took my eyes out with a sword (that's the only time when wearing glasses has been a good thing ). I ride so there has been some horse-related accidents -tumbling over (I flew way further than the horse lol), falling off the saddle, making small circles with a galloping scared horse and hoping she won't run through you And just half an hour ago yet another idiot behind the wheel came far too fast down a rap and almost ran me over (well, it wasn't that close this time). But yeah, no real experiences, just stuff that could have been that.

I know what you mean, but in my case I was just too scared to get bad news, so I just hid my symptoms for as long as I could and refused to visit a doctor. I always just figured I was weaker than most, and that I was one of those people whom were meant to die at a young age. I kind of still think that, which doesn't mean I want to die, I'll do whatever I can to die old, very old and in my sleep. Specially now that I have kids .

Anyway, one day I couldn't take it anymore, I had drops in my blood pressure more and more often, which was scary to say the least; I bruised like a banana, I slept way too much and I kept losing a lot of weight, I looked horrible and I was making my whole family walk on the walls. When I was diagnosed, I did get scared, but to be honest, I already knew I had it.

Now I see it's not really that bad, you just have to learn to live with it. Right?

yes, it just becomes part of your daily life... with some highs and lows, literally
back then I had no clue what those symptoms were... I didn't know anything about db.

I did, that makes me even more stupid . I should have said something before.

But oh well.. Another lesson for me to learn.

Well, I dunno how close I was, but when I was a kid, I once (and once only) ran holding scissors in my hand (just like mum always told me to do ) and of course, fell. The scissors only scratched my neck but I still have the scar.

chile's earthquake take a lot of lifes, althought nobody I've met

I`m not sure if I was really close to death, don`t remember any serious accident or so, butAnd I have been dangerously malnourished several times in my life. At the age of 1 my celiac disease became evident, but the doctor didn`t recognize the symptoms until I looked like those poor children in the Third World. I have also been suffering from anorexia nervosa, two years ago I ended up in hospital for over two months because of underweight and suicide attempts. But thank God and good people, nowadays I am (quoting Flyleaf) Fully alive more than most, ready to smile and love life


horrible things are going on in the world

I don't know if i was really close to death, but I once got hit by a car, I was unconcious for 5 hours and everyone was like "oh, that must have been a big shock!" well, I think that I was the only one who wasn't shocked, just because I can't remember the accident at all ( and I'm happy with that (: )
sometimes I think about what could have happened if I had crossed that street just a second later, and the car would have fully hit me...
the nice thing about the accident was that I came to realize how many people cared about me, even the people I thought who didn't like me at all. I actually got around the 50 cards, even from people I didn't quite know

This may sound funny, but I was nearly choked by a candy.
When I was really young, like 2 years old, I swallowed a big marmalade candy. The whole big candy. Without chewing. It stucked in my throat, and I couldn't breath. Instinctively I lurched to hallway where my dad was. Dad guessed what happened, because my facecolour was becaming blue. Calmly he picked up me into his lap, and used the "abdominal thrusts" to get the out of my throat. And it came out, like a cannonball.
Without my dad, now I may be dead.

That's friggin' scary. 8|

You remember that with a candy? Quite a story.

Couldn't breathe once or twice in my life - accidents while training martial arts. I still have some weird twitch in the neck.

Once during a play rehersal some fool was supposed to attack me - that part I expected. I didn't expect him to have a real knife, he didn't bother telling me that tiny detail. He scratched my eye (thank God for glasses and martial arts training), the doc said I was half a milimeter from losing an eye on the spot.

Been in a few fights, had one surgery, quite a few bike accidents that ended up in stitches.
Almost been hit by a brick falling down from a roof, I wasn't killed because I caught on a door knob and it fell just before me. I guess someone up there didn't want me killed just yet, all the people around (including me) just stood there for a moment or two looking .

Fell from a bike just in front of a car, reacted instinctively and managed to roll away within seconds. It was going too quickly to stop, though the guy behind the wheel hit the beaks immediately. My bike was the only one seriously injuried.

Lost half of eyesight in one eye in a few weeks, therefore been suspected of having a head tumour or stroke. I got the eyesight back gradually, the cause's never been discovered.

Lots of other minor accidents, broken bones and such. I guess my poor parents never got bored I honestly hope my future kids won't have that after me.
Somehow I either got smarter in my twenties or I just used up my accidents stock for life, didn't have any serious stuff happening during the last 3-4 years.

I guess I've been close to death two times. But neither of them was like seconds away from dying or anything. Just close calls.

I was about 6 months old when me and my Mom got into a car crash. She was riding a bike and I was sitting in the baby seat at the back when car crashed straight to our side. That could've ended badly but I only got some small bruises etc. Mom was fine as well. So, that was a close call.

The second time was when I was 12 or something. I have this bad habit of gnawing my fingernails and that's why my fingertips are full of small cuts and grazes all the time... Well, most likely some bacteria got in through those at that time and my right index finger got badly infected. Sounds funny now...
I ignored it for a week, thinking it would go away but it didn't so I went to show it to my Mom. She started yelling something like "OH MY GOD IT'S FRICKING INFECTED". So, off to the school nurse. I got antibiotic prescription but surprise, surprise, no help. It just kept getting worse. My finger was so swollen I couldn't bend it and touching anything would hurt like hell. And it started turning blue already, in other words it was close to gangere... Since the antibiotics didn't help, we went to the local health center and waited for several hours. When we finally got to see the doctor, he was pretty shocked. The only option was to cut my finger open and squeeze out the puss. They tried to make it numb with some cold spray but it just made it hurt more. Luckily, the doctor was being honest and told me "This will hurt like hell" before he cut my finger. And boy, it did hurt.
The aftermath? Another antibiotic prescription, wash the finger two times a day for 5 minutes and desinfect it. It also included my finger going through some "rebirth" process. The skin shed itself from the tip and the fingernail dropped off. Now, my finger is just a bit thicker than the left one and the nail looks weird. It doesn't grow as fast as the others and it's much thicker and still weaker.
Now you're wondering what near death situation this was. Well, the infection had almost killed the tissue of the finger and gangrene was just inches away which would've caused a blood poisoning and that's not very healthy. And I would've very well lost the whole finger.
But did I stop gnawing my nails? Many else would've.
But I didn't.

I nearly drowned today. I went with my crush to swim in the sea. The water was a bit tricky because it has some deeper areas in it right of the middle of something not so deep. When we decided to go out, we both went into one of this deeper areas. I have no problem to swim across, but she couldn't. Unfortunately, I'm terrible when comes to pull somebody out of the water, so I could only shout "Help!", even though I was one feet away. Thanks got the lifeguard reacted on time and took her out. Unfortunately again, he first tried to pull me, so I had to tell him to leave me alone. When me and her were both out, she was laughing...
I actually would not have drowned, but I was feeling and was ready if she goes, I'll go too.