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

[navyjeff]

I was riding an old motorcycle on a lightly raining day. The stoplight ahead changed, and I squeezed the brakes gingerly, intending to stop. The brakes instantly lock up and the bike starts sliding into the intersection, still going about 30 mph. Meanwhile, a car coming from the right takes a left turn, entering the intersection directly in front of me.

I let go of the brakes, dropped the clutch and accelerated right, just in time to swerve between the tail of the first car and the truck immediately following it.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

ah only one comes to mind but i do know i have more

me and my friends used to be crazy tree climbers (not saying we were good but we definitely had zero fear and we did it 3-4 times a week) and we found a new forested area about a mile from my friends house and so we went, and we found the biggest trees didn't have any good low branches so we went on adjacent trees and got a good 20-25 feet in the air and were able to get over (the trees were decently close enough) so we hopped over and climbed up to the top of these few trees, and they were a good 40-45 feet high(seriously couldn't see the bottom from up there, so many damn trees!) and we were chillin at the top enjoying the view and triumph of "owning" another tree, and my branch with my main weight broke instantaneously and i fell a good 15 feet (magically not hitting any branches hardcore) and i landed on a solid branch that was really fluffed/comfy, in which we proceeded to have lots of laughs and climb more


a good few years later when i had some sense, i near shit myself realizing i could've died/seriously wounded in so many ways...

i had balls of steel growing up, lost em at some point in gaining sense..

 

[Lunar Templar]

few years ago i was working for me dad (he had a landscaping/clearing business which sadly is no more) we where working for this one guy who wanted the lower part of his land cleared of the trees, and this was when dad decided 'your gonna learn to fall trees'
my reaction 'awesome'
and thus it was, for a couple days, till this one alder did this.

i had no where to go, so if it hadn't rolled away from me, I'd probably be dead, needless to say, building materials where shat.

and after my heart rate normalized, i got back to work, fell all but a hand full of trees on that job, and IT WAS AWESOME the crashing sound a tree makes when it hits the ground TOTALLY made up for all most getting smushed like a grape

 

[Fetzenfisch]

Some years ago. . i probably was... 20. yeah? i dont know anymore.
I was called by a girl i and my best mate from school ( which was over for 1 or 2 years) were good friends with, and we and some others wanted to drive to a lake. I accepted because ,well i wanted her, and even if that wouldnt have worked i liked the others around that were invited. So she picked me up in her car, we drove to the lake, and finally we found a place to park the car on the road and we stepped out of the car and got our stuff out of the trunk.
Then she decided that she wasnt satisfied with the way her car was parked and wanted to park it better in the same spot. she pulled reverse got out on the road and was hit by some freakin jerk in his Jaguar 15 seconds after we got out of her car Which was shred into pieces and decorated the whole suroundings of the place in 500 metres square.
damn that was fucked up. the guy didnt even take notice of her. because he was on his cellphone, and when he got out of his wrecked luxury car, he went over to us, saying something like "damn im lucky i didnt even use the safetybelt. I never really wanted to kill a person but that moment, even being in shock myself.

 

[Nerdstar]

i was working at a local community cleanup when i was about six we got a tractor ride in at the end, nothing to big it was just a few kids in a sort of trailer you use to haul away debris pulled by a regular john dear. i was an idiot and stood up in the front of the trailer and fell off i rolled away unfortunately what i dint realize was rather than rolling to safety i had in fact rolled UNDER the trailer narrowly missing the wheels but instead getting jammed up in the wheel shaft after a minute or so (felt like an eternity) i was eventually extricated taken to the side of the road looked over i was uninjured ( hurting like hell, sore with a few bruises but other than that nothing not even a single broken bone)

to this day that has been my closet brush with death and i learned a valuable lesson that day

DONT STAND UP IN THE FRAKING TRAILER WHILE ITS MOVEING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[DemonicVixen]

Last week I was almost hit in a cross walk by a speeding taxi. He was going so fast the way was clear when I started and it's a short distance. I wasn't sure he was going to stop. Then again, on that day I didn't particularly care if he stopped or not.

Years ago I had an episode of toxic shock syndrome. So much vomiting, shaking and chills. I think my fever as around 104F at its highest (107F is when you start worrying about brain damage and death). I escaped all of that but should probably have gone to the hospital. I didn't realize how sick I was until my mother (a head nurse) told me a few weeks later.

My mom nearly choked to death on a pill. My brother gave her an improper and panicked Heimlich maneuver and she lived. He did break a few of her ribs though.

How did you contract TSS and if you didnt go to hospital then how did you get rid of it??

According to several sources on google and other medical stuff, it does NOT go away on its own and in almost 50% of cases its fatal. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001676/
The diagnosis is based on several criteria: fever, low blood pressure, a rash that peels after 1-2 weeks, and problems with the function of at least three organs.

If your mother is a head nurse then she should have been ashamed of herself not taking you to hospital if she knew you had that. Just because she is a nurse that doesnt give her the right to treat you at home without other medical care. Had you died she could lose her license and job.

No, i dont claim to know anything about TSS, but being a girl who naturally has periods, its more common for us to get it via tampons etc, so naturally i've studied this disease for a long time.

 

[redisforever]

I was also once damn near run over by a car, while sitting near the sidewalk. NOT normally a dangerous place, not near the curb either. But the car jumped the curb, but the guy swerved away in time. He got out, and ran over to make sure no-one was hurt. I wasn't, but my pants were damn near wet.

 

[SovietSecrets]

Ive nearly been run over by a couple of cars. Most expensive one was a Ferrari.

 

[gardyna]

in 2007 I was at a sailing tournament it was mi autum/early winter and it was cold and massive wind. so when we went out to sail almost every boat capsised instantly and the race was delayed. on the way to shore I capsised and the outhaul (the rope that keeps the sail on the boom) broke. now I had no way to sail the boat and was drifting out to open sea. after almost ten minutes of shouting for help and trying to get some control over the boat a group on a zodiac arrive and throw me a thin rope and tell me to fix the sail (I like to remind you that the race had been postponed becouse of heavy winds) after about five minutes of that I blacked out becouse of hypothermia.

I woke up on shore and I heard yelling from the next room. it was my coach scolding the crew on the zodiac. I later found out that he had arrived on another boat hauled me out of the sea, ordered the zodiac to sail me to shore while he towed my boat safety (the guys on that zoiac were what he called incompetent idiots)

if he had arrived any later I wouldn't be here to write this comment

 

[Ih8pkmn]

Fell down the stairs when I was about 12. Not a scratch on me.

 

[Dawns Gate]

I was climbing some hoodoos when me and my friend were camping a few years back and we found a slide type of thing mad from the rain trailing down the back, the thing was was that you could only climb one side free hand and then you had to jump down onto a lower ledge which was a roundish rock so you could sit on and slide down onto the "dirt slide" it was pretty sweet, although it was a good 10-15 metres high, we never looked down until we slid down.

One night it rained but we didn't really care, I got to the top first and jumped down onto the rock and slipped i started to slide down off of it, I rolled over and nearly broke off a nail trying to grab onto something but it was totally smooth, i fell off and I thought I was dead but he grabbed me with one arm while he hung on the side and I slammed into it hard enough that i didn't need to grab something to hang on to it.

 

[Danglybits]

How did you contract TSS and if you didnt go to hospital then how did you get rid of it??

According to several sources on google and other medical stuff, it does NOT go away on its own and in almost 50% of cases its fatal. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001676/
The diagnosis is based on several criteria: fever, low blood pressure, a rash that peels after 1-2 weeks, and problems with the function of at least three organs.

If your mother is a head nurse then she should have been ashamed of herself not taking you to hospital if she knew you had that. Just because she is a nurse that doesnt give her the right to treat you at home without other medical care. Had you died she could lose her license and job.

No, i dont claim to know anything about TSS, but being a girl who naturally has periods, its more common for us to get it via tampons etc, so naturally i've studied this disease for a long time.

Uh, thanks for insulting my mom and her professionalism. You are claiming to know about this condition btw.(enough to claim you know enough to say what should and shouldn't be done for someone in that situation). I was improving by the time I got to her (this was about 4 hours away with negligent basketball coaches) she was prepared to get me help if I got more serious. I'm obviously fine, so she made the right call. I think my fever had dropped to 100F (this was over 10 years ago) by the time I was home.

Its my coaches who should be ashamed of themselves for leaving me to drive home, seeing how sick I was. They would have actually been on the hook for my death, since I begged these adults (some I'd known most of my life) to take me home; but they wouldn't for insurance reasons. Oh the irony.

There are many levels of sepsis. One of of them killed my grandmother actually. She had some kind of abdominal rupture. I never had a peeling rash; but I was weak for a few days and got bad dizzy spells (with hot flashes) for about 4 years after.

Yes, I got it from bacterial build up from tampon usage. I didn't use them for years after.

 

[Danglybits]

Ive nearly been run over by a couple of cars. Most expensive one was a Ferrari.

LOL, interesting way to characterize those experiences.

 

[Jamieson 90]

I came very close to drowning, when you get fresh air its one of the most amazing things ever. Air is underated

When I was 3 there was a house fire in my house which started in the kitchen, my room was directly above the kitchen. If it had taken a couple of minutes longer to rescue me then I would have dropped through the floor and been burn't alive. I remember going back to the house after the fire brigade put out the fire and seeing the damage to the kitchen and my bedroom. The floor of my room i.e the kitchen ceiling was gone, its scary thinking about it to be honest.

When I was 7 as I was riding my bike I had to swerve to avoid a maniac that was speeding, seriosuly they must have been doing 50 60 mph easily. Fortunately they just missed me or else I would be dead. I ended up smashing into the side of a parked car by the road which set off its alarm. I lay on the floor thinking crap im in trouble but the guy that came out saw me on the floor and sorted me out, his family was also nice to me, the guy in the car never stoped though. I suppose its not classed as a hit and run but it was still dangerous driving.

 

[PatSilverFox]

Me and a bottle of painkillers and a rope.

Last night T_T

 

[Varanfan9]

Technically I'm not sure if this counts but while I was still in my mom's womb they had to cut a piece of my umbilical cord off which stopped my heart for 7 seconds.

 

[Thumper17]

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.

You might wanna look up a film series called "Final Destination" if that is all indeed true.


As for me, choking as I had issues chewing when I was younger. Or nearly rear ending someone while someone simontaneously nearly rear ended me cause someone cut me off.

 

[Jim From Accounting]

I sat threw all of rebecca blacks,Friday.