People Who Survived Are Sharing The Most Terrifying Moments Of Their Lives

I actually died giving birth and they brought me back 🥲

29, went to get my first tattoo. At the end I stood up and…hit the floor in a grand mal seizure. Hit just right/wrong that my breathing and heart stopped. Funnily enough the person I went with just completed CPR certification the week prior and the tattoo artists wife was epileptic so everyone knew what to do.

I was 6 getting my tonsils out. Surgeon cut my artery in my neck and left a tonsil. Sent me home. Started vomiting blood in the back of my mom’s van. By the time I made it to the hospital I was in a coma and by the time a pediatric surgeon was called I needed 3 blood transfusions and had lost over 50% of my blood. Had to be in the hospital for a week. Was so weak I could barely lift my head for a couple days.

I fell 60 feet out of a tree as a kid. Hitting branches on the way down saved me. Knocked the wind out of me so bad. My brother kept saying "please don't be [passed away]" while climbing down to get to me haha

Accidentally drove up a mountain overlooking the sea with no space to turn around and the ocean on one side and a cliff on the other and had to slowly back down

I have epilepsy; when I was about 12 I had a pretty long tonic clonic (grand mal) seizure. I stopped breathing my face went purple an ambulance came and I was about to be shocked, but my sister screamed “just wait one second please…she just needs a second!” Right as they were about to shock me I started breathing again.

I almost died in an apartment fire because a resident on another floor was smoking while hooked up to oxygen. The cat I had back then woke me up at about 5am in a panic. There was smoke everywhere, and I grabbed her, put her in her carrier, and called the fire department to let them know we were still in the building. We were some of the last people to get out of the building. When we got out, I just sat on the road curb and sobbed.

This is the cat that saved my life.

A man I knew - as in, I’d met him twice - turned up at my house. Said he’d just moved to the area & thought he’d say hi. We chatted for an hour or so, when I said he needed to go so I could go to bed he tried to force himself on me then he attacked me in the neck with my own bread knife. The knife hit the junction of my sternum & clavicle. If it had been a cm higher, it would’ve gone into my throat.

Germany, 1991 - I’m driving on the Autobahn in morning traffic to turn in Army gear ahead of my transfer back to the states. Stayed up too long. Dozed off behind the wheel. When I woke up I was drifting right at 80 miles an hour; I over correct and slam into the middle guardrail.
I end up backward with cars zooming at me at 90 miles an hour. I prepared for the worst, but it never came. Everyone else was wide awake, thank God.

Yeah….. I was choking on a piece of beef roast and my dad had to give me the heimlic. The feeling of swallowing and trying to clear your airway and not being able to is terrifying.

While pregnant with my daughter I had bad heartburn. One day I leaned down in the bathroom, no one else was there, and started choking on my bile. Then while choking I vomited and had not taken a breath so I hopped in the shower, peed myself, and popped a blood vessel in my eye.

at 15 i had a reaction to the suture used in my tonsillectomy. my throat was almost completely closed. i could just barely breathe but couldn’t drink water or anything. my mom took me to an ER and in eight hours they didn’t even triage me, though i was drifting in and out of consciousness and was visibly gray. eventually she took me to a different hospital where i was triaged immediately and they found my blood pressure to be 65/40. i was maybe an hour tops away from organ failure, they said

My alarm went off one day and I was like ehhh i kinda want to sleep a little longer… then I’m like no, get up. Less than 1 minute later a giant tree fell right where my head was on my pillow.

Appendix burst. Drs kept fobbing off my pain for over a week as women’s issues. Ended up septic with appendix fused to my bowel & k**ling me. The only reason I didn’t die was because a Nurse convinced a General Surgeon to do a laparoscopy after he finished the day’s vasectomies. He opened me up & found a complete mess. Needed a bowel re-section on top of appendectomy. Woke up in Intensive Care.

On Valentine’s Day 2025, I had a seizure behind the wheel of my car. No history of seizures. Later found out I have a mild form of temporal lobe epilepsy. I hit the median, and ended up the wrong direction in opposite lane of traffic. Very lucky to be here!

My horse and I got hit by a drunk driver when I was 15. Had the car not hit a sigh post a Range Rover would have rolled over my head. I broke my back, collarbone, dislocated my knee, damaged my thigh bone and snapped virtually every ligament in my foot. Unfortunately the horse was too badly injured

My ex tried to [end] me, I needed over 30 stitches. He was within millimetres of hitting an artery. I have a disfiguring scar and permanent spinal damage that affects me everyday.

I slid out from under my seatbelt as an improperly secured six-year-old in a rolling van. I flew out the window and shot seventy-five feet before landing on my back in a field. Got blood on the scene, life-flighted to a children’s hospital, had a broken right arm with nerve and tendon damage in my left, and never did finish kindergarten.

Standing in Circle K, after buying my stuff, I saw designs in front of my eyes. Two seconds later (at least to me), I was on the floor, with a scalp g***, freshly bleeding. Because I have AFib and it puts me at risk for stroke, I take Xarelto, an anticoagulant. Had to go to the ER for stitchup and x-rays to verify no brain bleeding.

However, because I have a pacemaker with defibrillator, they decided to check its memory. Turns out, I was hit with Ventricular Tachycardia, and ten seconds in the defibrillator fired, shocking my heart back into controlled sinus rhythm. The ER cardiologist told my wife and I that if it hadn't shocked me, I would've died before the EMTs would've arrived.

I have Wolff White Syndrome. It's supposed to be rare that it k**ls you. One day while walking in my hallway, I just felt a terrible pain in my chest and fell to one knee. I couldn't particularly feel my hand itself but it was clutching my chest. My kidneys felt ice cold in my spine. Then my mind started yelling at me "No, you're not dying. You have a little girl to raise. Get up. She needs you. You are /her dad/ so get up" and I slowly recovered and stood back up.