What's the closest to death you've ever been?

Question

When I was about 8 or 9 years old, my brothers and I were in the lake swimming, I was too deep, and got tired, started taking in water and going down, brother pushed a life saver into my hands.

Answer 1

Birth.

I was supposed to have been delivered via C-section, however my mother went into labor before it could be performed. My shoulders got stuck in the birth canal, and the doctor had to yank me out with forceps. I was all blue and not breathing, so the doctor started CPR on me. I wasn't responding and was given up for dead. I then starting breathing on my own.

Answer 2

2 biopsies..

Answer 3

Car crash, I can't remember cus I was sleeping in back seat, when I woke up, i was in hospital...

Answer 4

Motorcycle accident and a drug deal gone bad.

Chose your friends wisely, the wrong people can really get you in bad situations.

Answer 5

=( Poor you! I have had a near drowning experiance before too, but the closest was when the doctors thought I had a canerous tumor a week ago!  

Answer 6

Every breath I take.  As Siddhartha said life is but one breath.

Answer 7

I have been to the mall on black friday in the toy store and lived.

very bad car crash, they couldn't figure out how I was uninjured

Answer 8

I crossed into an intersection on my green light and a huge semi-truck came roaring through on his red light, just inches from the front end of my LITTLE hatchback.  I was fairly shaken all day after that.

Answer 9

I tried to hang myself in my parent's garage while still in high school.  After I kicked the ladder over, I hung there for a couple seconds before the extension cord I used for a rope broke and I dropped to the ground.  I was very, very lucky.

Why did I do this?  Because the Christian bigots on our school's football team made a practice of regularly beating up atheists, geeks, and straight-A students.  I was all three.  Each time, they gave me the opportunity to "accept Jesus as my personal savior" and each time I refused.  After the fourth such beating, I spent three days in the hospital and a week at home, recovering.  I was so afraid to go back to school, I actually found it easier to try to kill myself.  Finally, I stole a small 38 caliber pistol and carried it in my book-bag for most of my senior year.  What a comfort having that weapon was!  I used it too, to fire a warning shot, and saved myself another beating at the hands of the same gang of bigots.  This all went down in 1963-65 and my fear of bigots is as great today as it has ever been.  In real life, my atheism is a strict secret, but I still keep a 12 gauge pump and a box of buckshot in my home, just in case.

Answer 10

I would of died twice already if not for modern medicine. There was a code blue on me after my triple bypass,   Then again three years later,  when My bladder got a hole in it and part of my intestines went in to the hole.  

  It all was very enjoyable Doctors kept  me filled with joy juice, and I was surrounded by friends and family.  

   No, I didn't see Elvis and my grandmother waiting for me.  but I am no longer afraid of death.

Answer 11

I almost died in a surfing accident in 1995 north of San Diego.   I was 24.   I specifically remember thinking, "This is it...I am going to die".    I was terrified.

Answer 12

when i was 3-4 yrs old i was playing swing round in the corridor with my sister smashed my head on the corner,nearly cracked my skull open!

Answer 13

I was floating on an inflatable raft in my aunt's pool and I slid off. I couldn't swim and I got trapped under the raft. I think I blacked out because all I remember is staring up at the bottom of the raft and seeing my aunt drop the phone and run to the pool in slow motion. Then everything was normal speed about 5 minutes later.

Answer 14

I can one step away from a partial ceiling collapse in a house fire,   it fell right in front of me.

Answer 15

motorcycle wreck, had to jump off my bike going over 100 MPH, or i would have ran into a semi-truck. was in hospital for 3 months, and wheel chair for 3 more months. I'm cool now.

I was also shot at twice, but i don't think either of those people really had any intention of really killing me.

Answer 16

My heart was stopped for almost 3 minutes after I got zapped with a huge electric shock.  Technically I *was* dead.  The paramedics at work jump-started me and I've been fine ever since.

Answer 17

Hyperventilation just last year.

That was scary...Cause i passed out afterwards.

=(

Answer 18

At 22 I had a blood sugar level of 950, which is coma time. For some reason, I was functioning enough to get to the hospital after fainting.

At 34 I drank myself into being sick for a week. Not sure if that was "close to death" but it sure felt like it.

It's the best thing that happened to me because it made me take stock of my life and grow up.

Answer 19

I was run over by a train as a baby my mom was killed and i was bleeding to death. the nerves and muscles were ripped out of my leg. when some unknown person found me and brought me to Mother Teresa orphanage the missionaries of charity where i got very sick. i was adopted to the us where i lived in Johns Hopkins for a while where they did experimental nerve transplants.

I've come close to death many many many times and for some reason i'm still here.

Answer 20

I fell over a water fall and came within inches of rocks. I was on a field trip to a water fall when I was in grade school, and the teachers let us go to the edge as long as someone was with us, but the teenager I was assigned to didn't care and being a stupid kid, I went to the edge by myself, tripped, and went tumbling over the water fall. The water below was deep, and as you've guessed, there were rocks. My parents sued the teenager and her family and won, but it wasn't much.

Answer 21

About 25 years ago I was so depressd I was a hairsbreadth away from committing suicide.

Answer 22

Age 16 came inches from getting hit by a train. The train stopped and the engineer looked under to see where the car went. I guess he closed his eyes.

For 9 years I did auto road testing with many people that couldn't drive.

The reaper has been my life's companion - but nothing like the folks in the military now that earn their pay everyday. May God bless them.

I believe in Providence: every human, born and un-born is important and part of God's plan. That's why Antony Flew changed his mind from atheism: the design is there, the proof is there.

All the best.

Answer 23

While I was on government holiday in Southeast Asia back in the 60's.

Answer 24

Once in high school I OD'd and once in college I OD'd. They were both close to death, but I think the college time was a little closer.

Answer 25

When I was 3 or 4 I was sitting on a pool float and my older sister's friend pushed me off it bc she didn't know that I couldn't swim and my sister had to dive in after me.

And one time, my grandma was driving my brother and me to her house and it was raining...she hydroplaned and the car went into a flooded area on the side of the road...water immediately started leaking into the car and she opened the doors and we had to swim out of the car. that was scary as ****.

Answer 26

Vietnam.....it was everywhere, everyday, all the time, I think it took years to get it off of me.  The Lord cleaned me up, popped me and sent me back into the world a changed man, been happy ever since.

Answer 27

I got hit by a car wing mirror.

I also crashed my car into a concrete post, 10 feet away from a train bridge, if I hadn't hit the post I would have hit the bridge.

Answer 28

was a very mischievous child- was almost hit by a car on two different occasions

Answer 29

I was going to light a match in my parents garage, but hesitated because of the strong smell which I thought was garbage. I opened the large garage door to air it out then proceeded to light the match.  I found out shortly thereafter that there was a propane leak in their garage. I nearly blew up myself and my parents' house.

Answer 30

My hair suddenly grabbed from behind and a straight razor held against my throat and a threat to not move while his girlfriend went through my pockets. (Yes, I felt the cold steel.) I (much) later wrote a humorous version and a serious version called "The Close Shave" and "The Close Shave Serious Version." I learned I am not afraid of death, but I will take an electric shock and my heart not beating for a few anytime over another one like that where I am staring it in the face for maybe a full two minutes and there is nothing I can do but endure and deal with it.

Answer 31

twice i was stung by bee's (very allergic), almost didn't make it to the hospital on time.

Once in Iraq, enough said.