"I’ve never been close, but I think I would be very cool to experience it," said no one ever. I think it would be terrifying. People might say, “Oh yeah, the closest I came to death was when I swam faster than 30 sharks.” Please don't lie, or exaggerate. And respect others' experiences.
#81
I have epilepsy and twice I’ve been driving and blacked out only to wake up during the crash. Once I smashed a wall head on and the other I woke up driving against the guard rail on the high way.
Did I see the light? Oh yes I did.
Did I see the light? Oh yes I did.
2points
#82
Sorry, to spam this, but some thing very terrifying happened to me today. My dad was driving me and my friend home, and we were at an intersection. The light had turned green, so us and the bus next of us started to go forward. As we were going I saw this car speeding through the intersection going close to 40 mph in a 25mph zone. And it didn't look like they were going to stop. So my dad and the bus had to slam on our brakes, and the car missed the bus by 10 feet and us by 20. If us or the bus had started going through the intersection or were slower to press our brakes, we would have been hit.
2points
#83
When i was about 9 or 10 my family used to go to a popular local area that had parks and lakes and a river to swim in. It had a high bridge across a lake that we kids all used to jump off.
I jumped in and when i hit the water something brushed my shoulder on the way down.
When i came up i was curious about what it was so i swam back down and found someone had buried 3 big sharp metal poles under the water in the bridge. 6 inches to the left and i would have been impaled. The rangers came and closed the park and searched the place etc. The police told us that they had some pretty good ideas who was involved but could not prive it.
I jumped in and when i hit the water something brushed my shoulder on the way down.
When i came up i was curious about what it was so i swam back down and found someone had buried 3 big sharp metal poles under the water in the bridge. 6 inches to the left and i would have been impaled. The rangers came and closed the park and searched the place etc. The police told us that they had some pretty good ideas who was involved but could not prive it.
2points
#84
I was a smart kid so I graduated primary school and got into secondary school (grade 7) when I was 8 years old. My parents thought the best idea was to send me to a boarding school. I didn't even know what was going on, all I knew was I wrote some exams and I passed and I being shipped off far far away from my parents. Months later, we were working in the field while in school and I injured myself. Being a little kid, I forgot about it. About a week later, I had high fever, hallucinations, nausea and dizziness. I didn't go the clinic. I slept that night and a couple days later, I woke up in the hospital, where I was told my wound was infected by tetanus and I may have died if I hadn't being rushed by friends to the hospital. Bottom line is treat your wounds, no matter how little it is.Infections can kill you!! And don't ship off 8 year olds to boarding school, no matter how smart they are.
2points
#85
Once my dad left me in his car with my baby cousin. And there were two people outside they were trying to get inside the car. I hid my baby cousin under a blanket. Then both of them were trying to do something to me. I tried kicking and punching them. All of a sudden I saw my dad coming.That is actually everything I remember since they both knocked me out. But everyone was okay I only got bruised that all.
2points
#86
Ok so I was born with a hole in my heart. Noone knew and once I was born I was sent home, no worries there. Parents and grandparents thought it was odd when I ate food and threw it straight back up. I was taken to hospital and they said nothing was wrong, maybe try eating different food. My parents did that but I still threw up. I got back to the hospital, 5 times and every time they got the same answer. My mum was convinced I was going to die, when I was 6 months old she took me to a different hospital, they said I had a hole in my heart. They fixed me up with a pacemaker, I had an operation down my chest and stomach. I have only used the pacemaker once when my heart stopped beating and it kicked in. Mum took me back to hospital and I've been sorted out. I still have the pacemaker, we're going to get it removed soon, i go yearly to the hospital to get checked up. Many people don't think it is possible to have a hole in your heart, but here I am. Many thanks to my amazing mother 😊
2points
#87
Well, my stepdad and my mom were fighting a lot. He once was trying to get my mom to stop, and then he made the car start and stop, like turning on and off the brakes, then the car turned 90 degrees, went on two wheels, and went into a ditch. Don't worry, nobody was hurt, lots of people helped us, and my mom and my stepdad divorced because my stepdad beat up my sister. We haven't heard from him since.
2points
#88
A couple-
1- When I was nine I was playing oin a shallow lake with my family, I went way further than everyone else and there turned out to be a drop-off for boats we weren't aware of. Could not swim, propelled myself into a fairly strong current by just kicking because I thought that was how to swim. Everyone who knew what was happening was panicking. I took a lightning lesson screamed from the shallows on how to tread water, though I was panicking and kept going under despite my desperate kicking. My grandma was luckily closeish to me as she had been coming to bring me back before I fell off the drop and she got me out of the current but by then I was very far from the shallow before the drop. My dad swam out to get me from Grandma and he tried to swim with me to the bank but the bank was covered in spiny bushes that sliced our hands and I was still kicking and then he lost his glasses and then he started going under so he went down as far as he could and then kicked a rock and like propelled upward and eventually got us back to the beach area. He had to go back to get his glasses.
2- when I was twelve, I hiked Ding and Dang with some of my cousins, and my parents, and my grandparents. There was a huge drop near the end without a rope like most of the drops had. Another thing, we were all freezing because we went after the rainy season so all the huge scoops taken out of the rock like ice cream that the hike is famous for were full of cold and dirty water. We were also hiking in the evening so it wouldn't be boiling hot. It was very cold and it for dark quickly. Anyways, at the drop with no rope, the adults decided that they would station themselves so they could kind of shimmy the kids down. The youngest was ten, don't worry, we weren't that stupid. And she was a very tough hiker. One of my sisters :)) so when it was my turn, I got halfway through before i got stuck. There wasn't a way back up or a clear way down, since I was the last kid and so all the adults but my mom had gone to help the other kiddos get through a huge rift. I froze and was terrified and shaking and I couldn't figure out where to go and my mom told me to jump. She was about six feet below me and balanced very precariously on the rim of a scoop. I was not having it but eventually I realized there wasn't really an alternative, but I was not brave enough to do it, so I was about to try and shift positions when I jumped instead. I was not planning the jump, it was like someone had jumped for me, it was a very scary sensation. It think it was my great grandma who loved hiking and the red rocks, who died when I was young. But my mom caught me and I was pretty much drained of all my energy and barely dragged myself through the rest of the hike, and some of the adults had to carry me through deeper pits of water because I was shivering and sleepy and they were worried I was getting sick.
3- I don't remember this as well because I was four, but I was found on a hike resting on a rock that a rattlesnake was resting under. It was hissing and rattling but I thought it was a bunch of pebbles rolling down the hill I was tired of climbing up. Right after my mom snatched me off the rock and ran my dad saw the snake dart after her but it slinked off into some bushes after a little while.
4- I can't even remember this because it happened while I was being driven home from the hospital like three days after I was born but there was a terrible storm going on, this was when we lived right by the sea. The wind picked up trees and thrust them through houses, the rain turned everything into soup. The roads were packed and slippery. A lot of people died. Our house was barely scathed. It was safe enough to keep lil me in, which was more than most people had in the aftermath.
5- after I learned about the terrible accident my grandpa had, I went on my bike route, desperate to find something familiar. I was tired, I was blinded by tears, I was nearly run over by a red Honda.
1- When I was nine I was playing oin a shallow lake with my family, I went way further than everyone else and there turned out to be a drop-off for boats we weren't aware of. Could not swim, propelled myself into a fairly strong current by just kicking because I thought that was how to swim. Everyone who knew what was happening was panicking. I took a lightning lesson screamed from the shallows on how to tread water, though I was panicking and kept going under despite my desperate kicking. My grandma was luckily closeish to me as she had been coming to bring me back before I fell off the drop and she got me out of the current but by then I was very far from the shallow before the drop. My dad swam out to get me from Grandma and he tried to swim with me to the bank but the bank was covered in spiny bushes that sliced our hands and I was still kicking and then he lost his glasses and then he started going under so he went down as far as he could and then kicked a rock and like propelled upward and eventually got us back to the beach area. He had to go back to get his glasses.
2- when I was twelve, I hiked Ding and Dang with some of my cousins, and my parents, and my grandparents. There was a huge drop near the end without a rope like most of the drops had. Another thing, we were all freezing because we went after the rainy season so all the huge scoops taken out of the rock like ice cream that the hike is famous for were full of cold and dirty water. We were also hiking in the evening so it wouldn't be boiling hot. It was very cold and it for dark quickly. Anyways, at the drop with no rope, the adults decided that they would station themselves so they could kind of shimmy the kids down. The youngest was ten, don't worry, we weren't that stupid. And she was a very tough hiker. One of my sisters :)) so when it was my turn, I got halfway through before i got stuck. There wasn't a way back up or a clear way down, since I was the last kid and so all the adults but my mom had gone to help the other kiddos get through a huge rift. I froze and was terrified and shaking and I couldn't figure out where to go and my mom told me to jump. She was about six feet below me and balanced very precariously on the rim of a scoop. I was not having it but eventually I realized there wasn't really an alternative, but I was not brave enough to do it, so I was about to try and shift positions when I jumped instead. I was not planning the jump, it was like someone had jumped for me, it was a very scary sensation. It think it was my great grandma who loved hiking and the red rocks, who died when I was young. But my mom caught me and I was pretty much drained of all my energy and barely dragged myself through the rest of the hike, and some of the adults had to carry me through deeper pits of water because I was shivering and sleepy and they were worried I was getting sick.
3- I don't remember this as well because I was four, but I was found on a hike resting on a rock that a rattlesnake was resting under. It was hissing and rattling but I thought it was a bunch of pebbles rolling down the hill I was tired of climbing up. Right after my mom snatched me off the rock and ran my dad saw the snake dart after her but it slinked off into some bushes after a little while.
4- I can't even remember this because it happened while I was being driven home from the hospital like three days after I was born but there was a terrible storm going on, this was when we lived right by the sea. The wind picked up trees and thrust them through houses, the rain turned everything into soup. The roads were packed and slippery. A lot of people died. Our house was barely scathed. It was safe enough to keep lil me in, which was more than most people had in the aftermath.
5- after I learned about the terrible accident my grandpa had, I went on my bike route, desperate to find something familiar. I was tired, I was blinded by tears, I was nearly run over by a red Honda.
2points
#89
Here's one, I got into an accident where a car crashed into me. I was in the front seat when it happed and I hit my head really hard on the dashboard. I blacked out for what seemed like a lifetime, then I woke up in a hospital. Apparently, I had been pronounced dead for three hours. But I'm still alive. This happened three months ago.
2points
#90
This happened about a year ago. So I live in
Wisconsin and during the winter we get a decent amount of snow. Anyway I was on my way home from baseball practice and my mom and I were driving on the highway and there was a traffic jam ahead so we were stopped at the mouth of an overpass and there was a hill next to it. We had been sitting there for a couple of minutes when we started to slide off sideways even though my mom was reversing and we were about to start rolling down the hill which is probably like 30 feet high but miraculously we stopped before we did. The thing that made me angry about it was that nobody pulled over or anything to see if we were ok even though there were people behind us that had just witnessed it. We cried for a bit after that and got ice cream but it was really scary.
Wisconsin and during the winter we get a decent amount of snow. Anyway I was on my way home from baseball practice and my mom and I were driving on the highway and there was a traffic jam ahead so we were stopped at the mouth of an overpass and there was a hill next to it. We had been sitting there for a couple of minutes when we started to slide off sideways even though my mom was reversing and we were about to start rolling down the hill which is probably like 30 feet high but miraculously we stopped before we did. The thing that made me angry about it was that nobody pulled over or anything to see if we were ok even though there were people behind us that had just witnessed it. We cried for a bit after that and got ice cream but it was really scary.
2points
#91
My closest brush with death was when My mom was driving my brother and me to school. My mom was parked and as she was pulling out back into the street some idiot decided that instead of slowing down, it would be best to try and squeeze between our car and the curb. The door was ripped off. If she had driven just a few inches to the left, I would have been in serious condition, and my 2-year-old brother would not have made it. It scares me every time to think about what could have happened.
2points
#92
someone threw a fridge at me
I dunno why
(this was yesterday, btw I got a new fridge)
2points
#93
Once when i was 8 or so my family and a few friends went on a holiday to a farm in the outback. We were exploring one of the paddocks and i went off by myself to try and find the house again. There was a wall separating the paddock from the house and i was to short to climb it so i just stood there waiting for my mum. I felt like i was being watched so i turned around and literally 10 centimetres away from my leg was an Eastern brown snake (the 2nd most dangerous snake in Australia, yes i am Australian.) I hadn't been taught anything about snake yet so i panicked and froze from fear. I locked eyes with the snake and called out for my mum, still frozen in terror. My dearest mother didn't hear me because she was preoccupied with my brothers. 1 of them was having allergic reactions to grass and the other was stuck on a rock next to a dead sheep. The snakes tongue was flicking in and out while it stared my down. We held eye contact for about another minute and then the snake left. I was OK though.
if i had run away from the snake instead, it would have chased me and bitten me. I probably would of died because we were out in the middle of nowhere, a million years away from a hospital.
2points
#94
Not a big thing nor really a brush with death but when I was in California on a road trip there were some insanely twisty mountain roads and it was scary bc just feet to one side was a huge cliff, and the road was sooooo twisty!!!
1point
#95
Hm. The other day I was in a parking lot and I almost got hit by a car...😅
1point
#96
I had a seven-hour emergency surgery... ended up in the ICU for 8 days. God asked me if I wanted to "stay or come home". I said stay and woke up.
1point
#97
While I was mountain biking I accidentally went over a huge rock that acted as a ramp and sent me flying over the edge, but my dad grabbed me just in time.
1point
#98
As a kid, decided to wade across a creek during heavy flooding. The current washed away the sand bar me and a friend were standing on, and away we went downstream. A large tree had fallen into the creek due to the water eroding the dirt away from its roots and that saved us, otherwise we would have surely drowned. We were miles away from home and no one had any idea where we were at. Hey, I didn't say I was a smart kid.
1point
#99
Not me, but my little sister. She was about one at the time our family visited Mesa Verde. We went on this tour but at the end part we were going to have to climb up the side of the cliff like the Native Americans that lived there did. For some reason my parents thought my sister would be fine in a baby backpack. But while my dad was climbing, my baby sister was trying to climb out of the backpack so my dad held one arm on her and one on the wall--I was freaking out. She's okay now though.
1point
#100
I've never really had much experience with death. I guess for me, even though it wasn't actually life threatening, was a few years ago when I was at a swimming pool in Singapore.
I scraped my knee on the super sharp stone corner, and blood came spilling out. I hadn't expected that to happen and it stung really bad so I was in shock. I tried to breath through my nose but I couldn't because I was in shock or something, and then I remember thinking 'I can't breath, I'm going to die' (I'm a very dramatic person). Slightly oxygen deprived, I hobbled over to my mom and managed to gasp out "Blood- pain- pool- sharp-" and that was history. I still have a big scar on my knee.
1point