The CLOSEST you've ever been to death, without actually getting injured?

[The Man With the Soap]

Without being injured? that narrows it down quite a bit, but alright.

This all happened in 2008, but that sjust one month of one year.

April 10 - Anniversary of my gf's death. Go to the cemetery she's buried at to spend the day (like I always do, though this year I wont be able to), go to walk home, fall in empty grave (wasnt paying attention) Storm comes and plot starts to fill. (Not really life threatening, but if I had fell and passed out I could have drowned I guess).

April 13th (A friday that year) - Through what can only be described as an act of god, lightning strikes just behind where I had stepped.

April 29th - Death pulls out all the stops. Driving (Illegally, but meh, the cops in my town dont have enough time to chase me) and an SUV almost t-bones me on the driver's side. I swerve, hits the back, sends me spinning and I stall out near train tracks. Open the door (not paying attention, go to step out, then remembers hat so bends to get it, train rips off door). Safely get out on the otherside of the car, car almost hits me. Flip over the hood, car rips off that door. Sit and sigh, figuring I need to just stay put, and someone drives into the back, knocking me off hood of car and the car over me, spend 40 minutes under it while the tow truck comes to get it off. Finally go home, think i'm safe, Carbon Monoxide leak.

You wanna talk about luck.

April just ain't your month, huh?

 

[Athol]

When I was 13 or 14, my grandpa took me to a fly-in (informal airshow usually at a privite field). While I was there I got to go for a 'discovrey flight' (ie:get kid interested in flying), as we landed the pilot was to nose down on the grass strip. The prop hit, which resulted in the plane comeing to an abrupt halt and flipped onto its back.

Spoiler: Kinda like this, no tarmac though

Thats about it.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Snip

April just ain't your month, huh?

never has been. The rest of the month went like this (and the only reason I didnt post itbefore was because I was injured, so it wouldnt have counted in accordance to the rules):

April 1st - April Fools Day, my friend Jake thinks it would be funny to get me bitten by something venomous. Makes me stick my hand into a Brown Recluse nest.

April 1-5th - Spend time in hospital on life and death.

April 8th - Go out hunting with bow, because I felt in the mood for deer jerky and a family friend wanted some to. See a 14 point buck and take aim. Hit it, kill it, go to get it ready to take home, 11 point buck gores me in my shoulder. Lay in the forest bleeding out for three hours after having to kill it with Tomahawk (I know, I channeled my inner rambo) before my uncle finds me.

April 20 - Burglar strikes my house, steals about $2500 of stuff, but we get it back all except my savings of $650.

April 26 - In car with my friend Ryan, car flips over. Ryan goes to hospital with Broken arm and fractured ankle. I go to hospital for a branch sticking through my left shoulder (cause the universe likes to keep it even I suppose).

Awful lot of shoulder reconstruction that year. I'm rather surprised I dont just have steel shoulders and be done with it.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

I was in the car with my sister2 or 3 years ago, and some ass hole comes insanely fast behind us, so we move over, well so does he and runs u off the road, and onto the sidewalk. And just missed this concrete column by inches. If your out there reading this ass hole I hate you.

 

[Darius Brogan]

Like I said, Blind Fucking Crazy One In A Quadrillion Chance Luck. i've been plagued by near-misses my whole life. Hell, I even had one incident where being bitten by a poisonous Wolf Spider saved my life.

I was climbing a big-ass tree when I was about 7 or so, and I obviously pissed of the Resident Lichen Spider, he climbed onto my left calf and bit... Hard. I fell out of the tree, landed, not only straight on my head, but also on a rather large root sticking out of the ground. I looked up, rubbing my head, and figured out that, if he hadn't bitten he when he did, I'd have been brains first into an electrical wire.

Fun stuff, I tell ya.

Wolf Spider arent poisonous. They hurt like hell if they bite you, but they're ot poisonous. I've had more then enough bite me to know.

Actually, yes they are. Wolf Spiders are a more violent relative of Tarantulas, but their poison is hardly life threatening. There is no spider alive that isn't poisonous in some way, Wolf Spiders just have a very mild poison.
Besides, it's the 'fall thirty feet onto my head, only to discover that there was a power-line just above me in the tree' that I was focusing on.

 

[Jessta]

Ones that leave an impact far between but ones that don't are every day.
I fell off a small cliff face my house was on when I was 10. it was was 40 feet up and ten feet from the ground a chain necklace with a cross on it that I kept in my pocket fell out got snagged on the cliff partially and on my coat partially stopping me from falling for a few second and breaking my momentum. Ever since I have had a fear of heights since I was falling face first >_>
When I was 13 I had a full grown grizzly bear come up to me and shove its nose in my pocket to take out my lunch (a ham samwhich) before leaving me alone. Same year I was practicing with the recurved bow when it ricocheted off of the target I was shooting flew back and split a board a few inches from my head. My friend and I were driving home from the ferry terminal when a deer came out of nowhere and broke the front half of the trunk in.

 

[GeorgW]

It depends on your definition of injured is. I was once beaten bloody from behind with a baseball bat and then strangled, but I could walk to get help and I didn't have to have major surgery, only stay in the hospital for a few days and get some stitches, so I would say I got off well. Maybe that's not what you're looking for?

 

[Darius Brogan]

Snip

April just ain't your month, huh?

never has been. The rest of the month went like this (and the only reason I didnt post itbefore was because I was injured, so it wouldnt have counted in accordance to the rules):

April 1st - April Fools Day, my friend Jake thinks it would be funny to get me bitten by something venomous. Makes me stick my hand into a Brown Recluse nest.

April 1-5th - Spend time in hospital on life and death.

April 8th - Go out hunting with bow, because I felt in the mood for deer jerky and a family friend wanted some to. See a 14 point buck and take aim. Hit it, kill it, go to get it ready to take home, 11 point buck gores me in my shoulder. Lay in the forest bleeding out for three hours after having to kill it with Tomahawk (I know, I channeled my inner rambo) before my uncle finds me.

April 20 - Burglar strikes my house, steals about $2500 of stuff, but we get it back all except my savings of $650.

April 26 - In car with my friend Ryan, car flips over. Ryan goes to hospital with Broken arm and fractured ankle. I go to hospital for a branch sticking through my left shoulder (cause the universe likes to keep it even I suppose).

Awful lot of shoulder reconstruction that year. I'm rather surprised I dont just have steel shoulders and be done with it.

Lol, I guess April was your 'We can rebuild him. We have the technology' Month. Just about needed to have yourself turned into the bionic man or something.

PS: Brown Recluse bites FUCKING SUCK. So you have my sympathy.

 

[Rnr1224]

one of these kids held a gun to me when i was his apartment, he was just playing around but i was still scared. i thought for sure he would pull the trigger by accident. i later found out that it wasnt loaded but it was still scary.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Like I said, Blind Fucking Crazy One In A Quadrillion Chance Luck. i've been plagued by near-misses my whole life. Hell, I even had one incident where being bitten by a poisonous Wolf Spider saved my life.

I was climbing a big-ass tree when I was about 7 or so, and I obviously pissed of the Resident Lichen Spider, he climbed onto my left calf and bit... Hard. I fell out of the tree, landed, not only straight on my head, but also on a rather large root sticking out of the ground. I looked up, rubbing my head, and figured out that, if he hadn't bitten he when he did, I'd have been brains first into an electrical wire.

Fun stuff, I tell ya.

Wolf Spider arent poisonous. They hurt like hell if they bite you, but they're ot poisonous. I've had more then enough bite me to know.

Actually, yes they are. Wolf Spiders are a more violent relative of Tarantulas, but their poison is hardly life threatening. There is no spider alive that isn't poisonous in some way, Wolf Spiders just have a very mild poison.
Besides, it's the 'fall thirty feet onto my head, only to discover that there was a power-line just above me in the tree' that I was focusing on.

Well venomous then, because in that respect, every spider is poisonous. I always get the two mixed up, but they're not strong enough to kill a human, so there's never really any life threatening danger to being bitten by one.

Here's during the summer among some groups its a testament to how manly (or stupid, it depends who you are I suppose), as to how many bites you want to take before crying off.

... The Record is fourteen, my personal record is 9.


And oka, just made it sound like one lief threatening instances saved you from another, when there's no real danger in being bit by wolf spiders.

Snip

April just ain't your month, huh?

never has been. The rest of the month went like this (and the only reason I didnt post itbefore was because I was injured, so it wouldnt have counted in accordance to the rules):

April 1st - April Fools Day, my friend Jake thinks it would be funny to get me bitten by something venomous. Makes me stick my hand into a Brown Recluse nest.

April 1-5th - Spend time in hospital on life and death.

April 8th - Go out hunting with bow, because I felt in the mood for deer jerky and a family friend wanted some to. See a 14 point buck and take aim. Hit it, kill it, go to get it ready to take home, 11 point buck gores me in my shoulder. Lay in the forest bleeding out for three hours after having to kill it with Tomahawk (I know, I channeled my inner rambo) before my uncle finds me.

April 20 - Burglar strikes my house, steals about $2500 of stuff, but we get it back all except my savings of $650.

April 26 - In car with my friend Ryan, car flips over. Ryan goes to hospital with Broken arm and fractured ankle. I go to hospital for a branch sticking through my left shoulder (cause the universe likes to keep it even I suppose).

Awful lot of shoulder reconstruction that year. I'm rather surprised I dont just have steel shoulders and be done with it.

Lol, I guess April was your 'We can rebuild him. We have the technology' Month. Just about needed to have yourself turned into the bionic man or something.

PS: Brown Recluse bites FUCKING SUCK. So you have my sympathy.

Pretty much. Its more amazing I live through any given april.

And yeah, they do, but when you're Bitten by a Black Widow at five, you dont seem to notice near dying any more.

 

[Liquid Paradox]

You ever drink until you pass out? A startling number of people do this regularily, and think nothing of it... but I know something that most people don't.

You see, passing out from alcohol use is a defense mechanism activated when the body decides that you have to stop drinking, right now... or you will die. And I don't mean, like, if you keep drinking for an hour. I mean you are literally one or two drinks away from the lethal dose of alcohol for your body mass.

The scary part is, that had you not passed out, you would almost certainly kept drinking. and if you had, you would have died. Not might have, but would have. When you pass out, your body is literally protecting you from yourself.

People who die from alcohol poisoning either drank their booze too fast for the body to react, or somehow managed to stay conscious. Not trying to be an advocate against binge-drinking here, I have my moments too, but the next time you think it might be a good idea to break out the beer bong... well..

 

[Mordekaien]

Hmmm.... Having a loaded gun pressed against my forehead.

The second was that during summer (about 5/6 years ago) there was a storm outside and I got nearly smacked down by a falling tree.

 

[Gilhelmi]

snip
I lied... the most recent incident left me even more fearful.
My grandad used to be a very careful driver. Never had any major incidents or any minor incident that I know of aside from maybe when my mum was younger. Now, sadly he's not as good. Forgets the routes he's traveled so many times, swerves all over the roads, speeds or goes too slow etc. He also looses concentration easily which has now lead to several near misses of cars due to him not seeing them coming from the side or even towards him. Several I can think of include:
- Turning into the street right as a car was coming up the road, the car almost smashed into the passenger side and I had my neighbours young bairn with me on that side. (Other incidents of similar nature)
- Going through the carpark and he pulled straight infront of another driver without even seeing them at a giveway point
- Swerving all over the roads
- going 40mph or even 70mph on a motor way or duel carriage way.
- Running red lights on a round-about and not knowing which way to go next so taking his time going around so as to work it out. Needless to say traffic was in danger of hitting us or causing a MAJOR accident.

And more that I cant remember much of, but these have been the ones that ive been sitting in the car thinking "oh shit i'm going to die today". The above ones, all happened in ONE day ONE JOURNEY! that was before coming home. =(

I always fear my grandad's driving but sadly he's the only one can drive since I cant afford to and no-one else in my family can (aside from 1 who lives down south) and I need him occasionally when the busses or money fail me

That does suck

I remember my father needing too take away the keys to the Tractor (and therefor also the Harvester and car) after he ran over a 30 foot tall windmill. He was an old farmer and would drive 70 mph down the middle of the dirt roads, even on hills. He one time hit his neighbors car at a combined speed of 100 mph (he was doing 70, they were doing 30), thank the Lord no one was badly injured. I hated the fact that we had to stop grandfather from farming, because he loved it so, but 85 is too old to be operating heavy equipment.

You are in a worse situation not being able to drive, and therefor, making it more difficult too take away the keys.

 

[majes]

One day, I was helping my friend move in, and I'm helping him carry this ratty old recliner into the living room. We set it down, and right from underneath where I had been holding it, a spider scurries out. My biologist friend swiftly catches it, and while we're all looking at it, we realize it's a Black Widow.

From that point on, the chair was, and will be forever, known as 'Spider Chair'.

 

[The Rascal King]

I fell really hard for a girl. Things were great and amazing until I find out she has a boyfriend in the fucking army who could kill me if he ever happened to find about me. I broke it off with the girl and I've been holding my breath that no one snitches on me.

Oh and I was almost crushed by an elevator when I was 9

AND I nearly died of the flu at 14

 

[Darius Brogan]

It depends on your definition of injured is. I was once beaten bloody from behind with a baseball bat and then strangled, but I could walk to get help and I didn't have to have major surgery, only stay in the hospital for a few days and get some stitches, so I would say I got off well. Maybe that's not what you're looking for?

Not really, no.

I mean closer to: Giant rock falls off a mountain and lands two feet to your right. Or Explosion sends a pipe flying at you and gets embedded next to your head.

I've had quite a few of these incidents actually happen and I'm looking for other people with similar 'HOLY FUCKING SHIT I ALMOST DIED' Moments.

Interestingly enough, however, my Dad was beaten to within an inch of his life by some asshole with a baseball bat. He walked himself to the Hospital too. The other guy wasn't quite so lucky, my Dads not a large man, but he's strong as hell. And Crazy...

 

[Veldel]

1. Almost Drowned because some idiot didnt wait for me to get out of the way of the slide and landed on me pretty much paralizing me temp. so now im forever scared to go on pool slides


2. Almost bled to death when i was younger becausei had constent sergerys.

3. Almost crushed by a rock


4. My biological father almost choked me to death when he was drunk dont wana talk about it....


Captcha: arcerso fums
Ummm whats that even mean

 

[Darius Brogan]

One day, I was helping my friend move in, and I'm helping him carry this ratty old recliner into the living room. We set it down, and right from underneath where I had been holding it, a spider scurries out. My biologist friend swiftly catches it, and while we're all looking at it, we realize it's a Black Widow.

From that point on, the chair was, and will be forever, known as 'Spider Chair'.

Can I just say 'Fucking EEP!!' Black Widows are like Brown Recluse spiders. they're just something I'm not fucking too happy to get close to.

I used to have a big fucking nest of Black Widows living outside my house, in my moms GIANT Rose bush.
I never went within thirty feet of it.

 

[bl4ckh4wk64]

Well, this wasn't really near-death but I got sucked under while body surfing at Ka'anapali beach. It was only for a few seconds though, so it wasn't that bad.

Then there was that time I held a gun to my head, but I don't wanna talk about that.

 

[Angerwing]

Nearly cut my throat open on broken glass when I fell over one time.

You ever drink until you pass out? A startling number of people do this regularily, and think nothing of it... but I know something that most people don't.

You see, passing out from alcohol use is a defense mechanism activated when the body decides that you have to stop drinking, right now... or you will die. And I don't mean, like, if you keep drinking for an hour. I mean you are literally one or two drinks away from the lethal dose of alcohol for your body mass.

The scary part is, that had you not passed out, you would almost certainly kept drinking. and if you had, you would have died. Not might have, but would have. When you pass out, your body is literally protecting you from yourself.

People who die from alcohol poisoning either drank their booze too fast for the body to react, or somehow managed to stay conscious. Not trying to be an advocate against binge-drinking here, I have my moments too, but the next time you think it might be a good idea to break out the beer bong... well..

And if we're counting this, then I think I've 'nearly died' more than most :S