Near -death experiences..

Graces7 · 31-12-2016 02:43PM #1

At my age, heading for 80, maybe I should be more in tune, but life is so precious now..

A few weeks ago I was driving home from shopping along our deep rural narrow lanes.
I hate speed and am careful and been driving over 50// love driving...

Came round a blind bend on a single track lane to find myself face to face with a huge oil tanker going at speed as there was a long straight stretch behind him. I mean really close... Can still see it if I close my eyes...

I drive a wee Susuki and had we "met" that would have been the end and so sudden....

He braked but had nowhere to go,

Had I braked?

But instinctively I accelerated and swerved to the left. Missed him by a bare two inches, ploughed through the verge/ditch and back on the road.. Saw the tracks I had made at a later date.... must have been travelling at speed as my little front wheel drive gets stuck very easily

It all seemed unreal yet the thought in my head when I thought it was the end of me was anguish at the thought of my far away family hearing of my death
And the feeling for days that I was on borrowed time and maybe I had been killed and this was some kind of ????

Life is precious and fragile.. Had an emergency health scare a few days ago and the same feelings then.

Cee-Jay-Cee · 31-12-2016 03:35PM

Well done on getting to 80 relatively unscathed and still driving to boot. If I make it to 80 with all my faculties in check I'll be well pleased and anything after that is a bonus.

Graces7 · 31-12-2016 04:18PM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Well done on getting to 80 relatively unscathed and still driving to boot. If I make it to 80 with all my faculties in check I'll be well pleased and anything after that is a bonus.

And one I am not about to let some **** lorry driver rob me of ... after the A and E visit this week the all faculties thingie is slipping !

Beasty · 31-12-2016 05:00PM

Had a few near-death "experiences" in a single day a couple of years ago, although can't remember them as I was unconscious at the time.

Was a cycling accident racing up in Newry. Must have flown over the handlebars as broke one wrist and the other elbow. Reckon I'd either be dead or a cabbage if I had not put my hands out instinctively, as otherwise my head would have been more damaged than it was.

Of course I was wearing a helmet - that probably saved my life also as it must have absorbed a hell of a lot of the shock. My head pretty much shattered below the helmet line with 7 fractures (plus a few broken teeth), but there were none in the vicinity of the brain so no risk of bone impaling the brain. At least the 4 titanium plates now holding my head together don't trigger the airport security screening.

Then I apparently swallowed my tongue. If the medic following another race the other side of the road had not jumped over the central reservation to attend to me within a couple of minutes I would probably have suffocated

Hopefully that last one will be my penultimate near-death experience as I reckon I've had plenty to last a lifetime....

KERSPLAT! · 31-12-2016 05:02PM

Bar my weights incident

I don't think I've had any thankfully. None where I thought I might actually die anyway.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-12-2016 05:09PM

I fell off a sea cliff about 35 years ago. Landed on a narrow shingle beach and had to be airlifted out. It was on an island and a long way from the mainland. I recall falling and being quite calm about it. "Is this how it ends? So be it." type thoughts. I was unconscious for quite a while and dreamt of family a lot, as far as I can recall.
Since then, a few near drownings and a road accident of two, but none that gave that 'near death' experience.

Never had the 'move to the light' type experience though.

Alun · 31-12-2016 05:19PM

Had a car accident when I was 18 or so driving my very first car, a 1962 Ford Cortina, through Manchester on a dark rainy night. Drove across a traffic light controlled crossroads, and halfway across .... CRASH!!!!! A car had (I had thought) run a red light and slammed into the side of me. Except I didn't actually hear a crash, it was one of those classic things you always see on TV and films, where everything goes very quiet, and in slow-motion, life flashing in front of you and all that and then all of a sudden the car comes to a stop and then all the senses come back with, literally, a huge bang. All I can remember then was a pedestrian coming across to the car, opening the driver's door and saying something along the lines of "My god, they're still alive!". It turned out the car had actually rolled over on to it's roof (afterwards you could see the scrapes on the roof as proof), spun around a few times and then righted itself before crashing into somebody's garden wall. Neither me or my passenger had a seatbelt on (the car didn't have them, it was a long time ago!), and we both escaped without even a scratch which amazes me from this day on.

Later on we discovered that this was only one in a chain of similar accidents at that location and residents had reported the lights as being faulty many times but were ignored. Subsequent investigations proved them right, so it looks like we were both under the impression the lights were green.

ScumLord · 31-12-2016 05:27PM

I find near death experiences exhilarating. It's like doing a line of free cocaine.

dd972 · 31-12-2016 09:24PM

Death had a near Roy Keane experience once, he's still on tablets for his nerves.

Hector Bellend · 31-12-2016 10:06PM

I had a near death experience this afternoon when I found out that the redneck manifesto are paying whelans in February.

Heart attack

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-12-2016 10:11PM

Mrs S says travelling in a car driven a man of 73 is a near death experience every time. Personally I think she enjoys the thrill.

mynamejeff · 31-12-2016 10:28PM

regularly

involving cars and motorbikes mostly

very close to getting knifes working a door a long time ago

almost got caught in a collapsing building as a kid

Rubberlegs · 31-12-2016 10:47PM

The closest I came to anywhere near death was getting a sherbet lemon sweet lodged in my windpipe when I was about 5. I can still remember the feeling of not being able to breathe, and pointing frantically at my throat as I couldn't speak. My Dad grabbed me, turned me upside down and whacked me into the back and it shot out. I was so upset that he had hit me

As a result I have always been a nervous wreck when my children have eaten hard sweets.

As an adult, I was in a house fire where an oil tank exploded and set fire to the house in the middle of the night. The firemen told us if we hadn't got out so soon we could have been dead from the fumes within ten minutes. On the plus side I got to sit in a fire truck with the firemen in my PJ' s

monkeysnapper · 31-12-2016 10:56PM

Slightly different I know but a good friend of mine was driving to work one morning and a huge accident happened in front of him , one vehicle was a small van and there was a couple in back going to a job , I think 4 people in total.

All dead in a matter of seconds , he was first on scene and said it changed him instantly His car which at that time was his pride and joy had marks all over it from the shrapnel from the impact .

He got to work after it and seemed OK , we all told him to go home but said he was OK . by end of day it all caught up with him and I drove him home .

I remember it in so much detail from talking to him about it in the days ahead .

People talk about daring people , risking lives . I don't think people appreciate they drive cars on road passing others with a couple of feet separating them with a combined speed of 120 mph daily and people in other cars are prob on phone, texting, drunk. Hung over.

If you really thought about it you'd never leave the house.

Stigura · 31-12-2016 11:10PM

73Cat wrote: »

On the plus side I got to sit in a fire truck with the firemen in my PJ' s

Why were they wearing your PJ's?!

Rubberlegs · 31-12-2016 11:12PM

Stigura wrote: »

Why were they wearing your PJ's?!

. Damn good they looked in em too !

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-12-2016 11:22PM

73Cat wrote: »

. Damn good they looked in em too !

And I suppose you needed the kiss of life before the night was out.

Sam Kade · 31-12-2016 11:28PM

Graces7 wrote: »

At my age, heading for 80, maybe I should be more in tune, but life is so precious now..

A few weeks ago I was driving home from shopping along our deep rural narrow lanes.
I hate speed and am careful and been driving over 50// love driving...

Came round a blind bend on a single track lane to find myself face to face with a huge oil tanker going at speed as there was a long straight stretch behind him. I mean really close... Can still see it if I close my eyes...

I drive a wee Susuki and had we "met" that would have been the end and so sudden....

He braked but had nowhere to go,

Had I braked?

But instinctively I accelerated and swerved to the left. Missed him by a bare two inches, ploughed through the verge/ditch and back on the road.. Saw the tracks I had made at a later date.... must have been travelling at speed as my little front wheel drive gets stuck very easily

It all seemed unreal yet the thought in my head when I thought it was the end of me was anguish at the thought of my far away family hearing of my death
And the feeling for days that I was on borrowed time and maybe I had been killed and this was some kind of ????

Life is precious and fragile.. Had an emergency health scare a few days ago and the same feelings then.

I thought it was all over at 34, coming back from Ballybunnion to Cork I came round a bend at 60mph in an 89 car no ABS :eek: a cattle lorry straight in front of me at the wrong side of the road, I was actually standing on the brakes and everything went into slow motion. Anyway the fool in the lorry decided to turn left into a gateway which meant his rear bull bar came in contact with my car cutting through the wing and tyre at the drivers side. Anyway we all survived, happy days.

osarusan · 31-12-2016 11:30PM

Not quite a near death experience, but one that stuck with me and the rest of my family.

As a child I had a habit of dramatically pretending to choke on something, and it alarmed my father on many occasions, with him justifiably getting angry afterwards.

In pure 'boy who cried wolf' fashion, one time I really did choke on a big piece of chicken skin, and and ran to him pointing at my back for him to thump it. He just looked at me and laughed and walked away. My mother raced over a few seconds later and gave me the slap on the the back that dislodged it.

Even after he realised what was going on, he was still laughing to himself.

Sam Kade · 31-12-2016 11:38PM

So, did anyone have an actual near death experience? I know a man in his 60's at the time dived into a swimming spot to save a young girl and almost drowned himself. Both were saved and he told me after that while he almost drowned that he had a flashback of his life, as far back as recieving his First Communion.

failinis · 31-12-2016 11:39PM

I get delirious and hallucinate almost every time I get a fever.
So its not a real life/death experience but I get the over whelming sense of dread and hallucinate people are coming to kill us (meaning family or friends etc) nasty.

When I was 8 I choked on a creme egg, I stumbled and it fell down and blocked my whole throat like a plug.
My older siblings were there, and they tried slapping my back, they realised how serious it was when my face was red and started panicking saying "no no back slaps are for babies, you need to do hemlick" and they tried doing that.
I was facing the window, it was dark, street light was on. My brother was trying to do that procedure and I started to feel everything fade, and I remember the panic leaving and I just seen my neighbours bedroom lights on and thinking very clearly "is this the last thing I will see, thats not very nice". :rolleyes:
Woke up vomitting - something worked. I was crying for about 2hours afterwards with a sore throat.
My brother came into bathroom and roared at me to stop crying because my parents were coming home from their meal out and they can't know (the bed room window was open to try and hide the smell of vomit and everything)
And to this day - my parents don't know

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-12-2016 11:57PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

So, did anyone have an actual near death experience? I know a man in his 60's at the time dived into a swimming spot to save a young girl and almost drowned himself. Both were saved and he told me after that while he almost drowned that he had a flashback of his life, as far back as recieving his First Communion.

I have to agree that a close shave in a car, or such, is not a 'near death experience'. I know a couple of people whose hearts stopped and say they had the whole classic near death scenario. Thankfully my scarps never went quite that far.

hairyprincess · 01-01-2017 12:25AM

I was attacked by a cow. Twice. Same psychotic cow both times. First time my life flashed before my eyes, I saw my kids as I was screaming for help after she hit me.
Second time she had broke loose and came running up the road towards me, I jumped over a fence (to this day I don't know how I did as it was quite high and I'm quite short), I slipped on the wet grass and landed on my back. She came running to the fence as if she was in a Spanish bull run, butted it and fair play to Coillte but they know how to fence, the fence stayed put and away she ran up the road.
Majorly traumatising. Particularly the first time as it was completely unexpected.

cantdecide · 01-01-2017 12:51AM

In a very literal sense, I narrowly avoided decapitation by milliseconds.

A few years ago, I was riding my motorbike and in a freak accident, a tractor coming from the opposite direction had the boom from its chemical sprayer open out and cleave me off the bike. The only luck I had was that it hit me clean and square across the forearm, shoulder and helmet. The boom opened out and down so fractions of seconds earlier and I would have had the full force of it to the head.

It was a life changing/ affirming moment. The Guards said engineer said that if you re-enacted that accident, nine out of ten times I'd have have ended up dead. The bike was written off.

failinis · 01-01-2017 01:24AM

Does being born dead count as near, as near as you can be while being revived from it. Had to be revived a few times from the neonatal ward.
Got undiagnoised scarletina (dr brushed it off as I went septic over night).

Very thankful I have none or very few memories of the above. I remember my mum carrying me into hospital with the scarletina and i was crying that I was in pjamas and was that not bad outside of bedtime.
So total unawarness of how sick I have been at times. Many lucky escapes.

Robsweezie · 01-01-2017 01:42AM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Well done on getting to 80 relatively unscathed and still driving to boot. If I make it to 80 with all my faculties in check I'll be well pleased and anything after that is a bonus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fM5sWQlsjQ

Graces7 · 01-01-2017 08:48AM

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

Well done on getting to 80 relatively unscathed and still driving to boot. If I make it to 80 with all my faculties in check I'll be well pleased and anything after that is a bonus.

cantdecide wrote: »

In a very literal sense, I narrowly avoided decapitation by milliseconds.

A few years ago, I was riding my motorbike and in a freak accident, a tractor coming from the opposite direction had the boom from its chemical sprayer open out and cleave me off the bike. The only luck I had was that it hit me clean and square across the forearm, shoulder and helmet. The boom opened out and down so fractions of seconds earlier and I would have had the full force of it to the head.

It was a life changing/ affirming moment. The Guards said engineer said that if you re-enacted that accident, nine out of ten times I'd have have ended up dead. The bike was written off.

Ouch and glad it ended that way. NB I meant in the thread near accidents...Mine was that. Life changing. made everything crystal clear.

bear1 · 01-01-2017 09:53AM

Around 2008 when we had a few weeks of hot weather, myself, the then girlfriend and our dog drove up from Tramore to Sallys Gap to chill out next to nature rather than sit on a crowded beach.
Anyway on the drive up there is a waterfall, can't recall the name of it, and I stopped to let the dog out and take some pictures.
The dog suddenly jumps the fence and runs straight for the large stream which then falls off a very high cliff.
So he is just standing there near enough the edge and refusing to come back - potentially scared.
So I slowly walk over to the stream and get in to get the leash and bring him back.
Except I slipped and the current was so strong that it was throwing me towards the cliff edge.
God knows how but I managed to get traction at the last second and jump back onto the grass at side.
Dog was fine too but I would have 100% been a goner if I had have gone over.
Scary as **** when I think about it.

Galwayguy35 · 01-01-2017 10:09AM

When I was 4 I ran across the road in front of a car and it missed me by inches, of course I thought nothing of it and kept going but it was a neighbour who was driving the car and I'd say the fright he got was unreal.

Never thought of it much until I started driving myself.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 01-01-2017 10:57AM

hairyprincess wrote: »

I was attacked by a cow. Twice. Same psychotic cow both times. First time my life flashed before my eyes, I saw my kids as I was screaming for help after she hit me.
Second time she had broke loose and came running up the road towards me, I jumped over a fence (to this day I don't know how I did as it was quite high and I'm quite short), I slipped on the wet grass and landed on my back. She came running to the fence as if she was in a Spanish bull run, butted it and fair play to Coillte but they know how to fence, the fence stayed put and away she ran up the road.
Majorly traumatising. Particularly the first time as it was completely unexpected.

Similarly we had one cow years ago that hated everyone. She saw me from a distance, dropped the head and ran. I don't know where it came from, but I ran like mad, towards the round bales in the corner of the field and in one leap I got up on it, she was right behind me pawing the ground and snorting loudly. My father saw the whole thing - the unpredicable way she just ran, and she was shipped off to the factory.

I don't think I've had any real close calls, even though I've felt like I was dying at the time. I fell off a bale lifter and got caught underneath it, tractor was still being driven dragging me along the ground. I thought I was going to die then but i walked (well 3 months later) away from that with a few broken bones and a dislocation so in the grand scheme of things it was ok

Graces7 · 01-01-2017 01:14PM

Sam Kade wrote: »

I thought it was all over at 34, coming back from Ballybunnion to Cork I came round a bend at 60mph in an 89 car no ABS :eek: a cattle lorry straight in front of me at the wrong side of the road, I was actually standing on the brakes and everything went into slow motion. Anyway the fool in the lorry decided to turn left into a gateway which meant his rear bull bar came in contact with my car cutting through the wing and tyre at the drivers side. Anyway we all survived, happy days.

That is it exactly. So clear and vivid it is even years later

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