People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It

Get a normal amount of sleep!

I ran my own business and was really proud of it, ended up getting a big project where I estimated based on two other developers helping me who'd worked on a number of projects before. The two other developers had major life crises happen that left them to drop out so I was left to complete the project in the promised time of one month.

I got maybe four hours of sleep a night, but realistically an average of two with a short nap or two during the day. I honestly didn't feel that bad during it. My ex-wife had gone on a trip to visit her family during the end of it since I was too busy to really pay attention to her at all and had planned to come back the night of the deadline.

She was arriving at like 2am the night of the deadline so after I handed off the project I went to sleep at like 8pm thinking I'd be rested enough when she got in to great her. I woke up at 6am to her being home and apologized for oversleeping, she said she couldn't wake me. About and hour later I realized the date on my computer was forward by a day...but really, I'd slept for 34 hours straight.

While it seemed kind of funny or cute at the time the lack of sleep damaged my heart and while it's technically recovered now doctors have said that most likely my life expectancy is lower than someone who hadn't been through that.

100% not worth it for any reason, get a solid 8 hours of sleep each night and live longer.

When I was 15, a man tried to take me back to his place by force. I would have not made it out of his grip if we didn't hit ice, he slipped, and I hip-tossed him. I ran home.

In college my friend and I (both females) were bored one Friday night so we decided to go on a drive and play the left right game. Basically when you come to an intersection you pick left or right. Anyway, we ended up at the nearby lake and we decided to get out of my car and walk down the dock to see the stars over the water. After a few minutes we get cold and walk back to my car and get in. As soon as I turn the car on and the headlights come on, the lights shine on 3 men coming towards us out of the trees and one was carrying something. My friend screamed and we hightailed it out of there. We were lucky…who knows what would’ve happened if we didn’t get cold so fast.

Three occasions I was almost unsubscribed from life.


First time I was working a late shift in the drive thru at McDonalds. There was a shootout in the parking lot and a stray bullet barely missed me.


Second time, I doubt anybody will believe this story. I was in a brawl and someone tried to run us over with a car, and I jumped on the hood with surprisingly minor injuries. Someone also pulled a knife out, but luckily there were some rocks nearby and I landed one on his face before he could stab anybody.



Third time was a few years ago. I had congestive heart failure from a combination of being fat and kidneys almost failing from eatng so much sodium and sugar. Not exercising also contributed to that. I'm much healthier now and won't take that for granted again.

I was drunk, fell asleep in bed with a cigarette and only woke up because I touched the embers of my smoldering mattress in my sleep. My room was already completely full of smoke, maybe another hour and I would no longer be here.

My brakes failing (pedal fell to the floor) as I approached the old intersection of Circle Drive and 18th Street at high speed as lights changed, also to find out I had no emergency brake (wasn’t connected).

A lollipop. I was eating one at night my family was sleeping and I started choking, I couldn’t breathe. I would be very embarrassed in heaven right now if I were dead.😭😭.

I got trapped under a floating bouncy house. i cut the hell out of my foot but somehow survived, lol. it still scares me thinking about it.

My mouth. I was drunk as hell one night and started running my mouth to some guy and he pulled a gun on me. Can still smell the oil.

My grandma had a little ictus while she was driving, only me and her in the car. I didn’t have the cellphone at the time (I was like 8 yr old) and didn’t know what to do ( she wouldn’t respond). We crashed onto many things (also the guard rail) and broke mirrors…
At a certain point we were in the wrong lane…
Still don’t know how we got home.