Hey Pandas, What's The Closest You've Ever Come To Dying? (Closed)

A drunk guy crashing into my house at 60 miles per hour. Stopped inches away from my head.

Okay, I have two. One time I was riding on a bike with my dad and sister. We were crossing a crosswalk when a big truck came barrelling down the road. The person it slammed on their brakes just in time so we weren't hit. The second time, I was watching a show eating nerds and I laughed at one point, causing a few nerds to fly to my throat. I was able to breathe at first, but then the nerds moved while I tried to cough them out and I couldn't breathe at all anymore. My dad almost has to heimlich me, but when he pulled me up and adjusted his arms to do so he lodged the nerds out of my throat and I was able to cough them up. The second experience was humiliating and terrifying because, well, I almost got killed by candy.

I was walking and rubbing my eyes at the same time in my house, and there just happened to be a cobra on the carpet. I didn't see it since my eyes were closed, but it hissed at me because my foot touched it!! We called the fire brigade and they took the cobra away. Wow

When i was born i had a huge mass in mah brain, somehow lived

Whenever I was born. My mom was in labor with me for 27 hours and tried to have me naturally before they just said f*** it we're just gonna cut it out. I wasn't breathing and I had little to no heartbeat when I was (finally) born and I had to be resuscitated and it literally almost killed both me and my mom. I won't go into detail about the things that occurred after I was born because it's genuinely disgusting for some people and I don't want to gross people out.

i dont have that good of memory of stuff like that but my mom said I was born prematurely and had to be in some sort of special part of the hospital so I could survive. there are other times that I have had near-death experiences but I cant remember any right now.

This didn’t happen to me but my friend was at an airport in Europe somewhere and on the the floor above there was a terrorist bombing. He was ok but the whole building shook.

Went to a pool party, I was in the deep(er) end, I could touch the ground, but I hit a downward bump, I couldn’t get out, I hopped desperately to get air, I was running out of it quickly, corner of my eyes was blacking out, I settled down, hopping still, but not flailing anymore, I sorta accepted fate then my mother saw me, one of my fathers friends kinda pushed me to the shallower parts, and well, I survived!

I once had a 105.7 degree fever and I still don’t know wut caused it but I wuz in the hospital for 3 days

My friend was drowning, the life guard wouldn't help, so naturally, I went in to save her. She was too heavy to swim, so I had her on my back until the life guards rotated. My friend was closer to death than I, but I was never closer to death

ate a peanut butter sandwich.

I'm allergic to peanuts.

Was born with a hole in my heart + the doctors ignored it 6 times before we switched hospitals but I'm here now :)

when I was little I went to the beach and almost drowned. I was able to pull myself out.

When I was 2 and fell out of a vehicle it wasn't moving it was parked in the driveway but so yeah i fell out smashed my skull on concrete and now have a nasty scar on the back of my head and %99 some brain damage

lol let's see...lived thru cancer, been thru 2 car windshields, been electrocuted, fallen off a few roofs, few close calls with explosives and fireworks, a friends rifle "accidentally" went off and the bullet just missed my head and hit the tree behind me, few close calls rock climbing....been more than that and probably a few I've forgotten about....eh you only live once right?!

probably wouldn't have died but I almost drank some peroxide when I was six. I had a sore throat and thought it would help cause that's what we always used for ear infections. :/ honestly don't know how I didn't die in some act of stupidity yet

I had pneumonia...
Now whenever I cough I feel thankful it didn't hurt like it did then.

I was a toddler and we were visiting my dad's relatives in a neighbouring country. I was obsessed with birds and the minute we got out of the car, I saw a bird statue and started screaming "birdie birdie" and I started running towards it. It wasn't a very busy street, very less foot traffic as well, but a car was coming down our way. I was already away from my parents and right in its path when a stranger grabbed hold of me right in time. My parents claim the stranger disappeared after helping and they call him my guardian angel. But I think they were too busy hugging me and telling me off to notice him walk away. Either way, I'm still here.

Another time, it was another family trip. We were in a complete mountainous (in the Himalayas) area and were heading home. It was a 2 week road trip and we had a hired driver who was driving us in a rented car. Not even 5 hours after we started from our hotel, we were stuck in a long line of traffic in the middle of nowhere , surrounded by mountains. News was that the roads ahead were destroyed from the previous rains and would take time to be up and running. Our driver suggested we stay and wait it out. My dad insisted we drive back the 5 hour trip to the city and stay there. The driver kept trying to convince us saying the roads could possibly open in another few hours or the very next day and we would have to drive all the way back. He thought we should spend the night in the car. My mom has claustrophobia and a back problem so we put our foot down and said drive us back. When we got back in the evening, our hotel was fully booked but they helped us locate a guesthouse. We woke up the next day to news that there was a massive cloud burst and several landslides in the city as well in the mountains. If we would have stayed back, our car could have been washed away with some of the others. We were stranded in the city for the next 11 days and we had to abandon the car and fly out eventually. Around 300 died and some were never found.

I was 9yrs old back then, when there was a terrorist attack on the police force headquarters closer to our school, then opposite another school and a gas stations. Everyone's car glass mirrors shattered in the station , the other school's wall practically rip off into two, thankfully my school had a mini earthquake due to the bomblast , so i was in the library I didn't realize i was on the floor with books all over.

My dad is a race car driver and sometimes when he gets road rage he'll pull some cool moves. Well, one time this guy almost crashed into us so my dad weaved tightly through some cars and the dude missed. We got away from him but he came back in front of us and slammed his car on the brakes. My dad swerved out of the way and the dude crashed some other guy. Police questioned us (we got ticketed) and the whole time this guy was trying to convince the cops that we kept trying to hit him. >:(