facing death

KeithAFC · 10-04-2011 03:59PM

Plenty of times.

spitfireIRL · 10-04-2011 04:27PM

Nearly blew myself up by a gas cooker about three times, leaning on the knobs, about to spark a fag.. happened at least 3 times but I noticed the smell those three times.. Very dodgy now about it! Also nearly got my head crushed by a bus wheel but that was my fault

Canard · 10-04-2011 04:56PM

azezil wrote: »

It may be low but there is a 2% chance you'll die every time you're anesthetized.

But for me, yes it was 4 times, each of my surgeries was a matter of life or death.

Really? That seems awfully high.

Just this morning I had an asthma attack for the first time, I think. I've had the whole thing of constant coughing during the night tons of times but this time I started wheezing in my sleep. I woke up and couldnt breathe and had no idea what was going on, wasnt in my own house and didnt even have my inhaler. It stopped after maybe a minute but it was horrible.

Also, when I was 14 I was driving from Las Vegas to Anaheim and the car was kind of ****ed. It was swerving slightly even when my dad held the wheel still, and we very nearly hit a truck.

Rubberlegs · 10-04-2011 08:17PM

I'd just walked out of a room when I was two, and the ceiling crashed down destroying the place.
Started choking on a lemon sherbet boiled sweet when about 6, can still remember not being able to breathe. Dad saw me blue in the face, swung me upside down and whacked me into the back. The sweet flew across the room, and all I could do was roar crying because my Daddy had hit me:o.
A few years ago, was staying over at my sisters. Woke to the house on fire in the middle of the night, and the house full of fumes and thick smoke. Could barely see to get out. Some ass had decided it was funny to set light to next doors oil tank, which exploded, and set the two houses alight. Fireman told us that ten minutes more in those fumes we'd have been dead:eek:

Cupcake_Crisis · 10-04-2011 08:37PM

I was in a car crash on the way to Galway about 2 years ago. We had to swerve to miss some asshole, the car ended up toppling 3 times and hitting a pole. There is no way to describe the feeling I had when the car was toppling, I was convinced we were all gonners. Luckily no one was badly hurt.

The car we had to swerve to miss just drove off and left us there.

Lawrence1895 · 10-04-2011 08:49PM

Saila wrote: »

frequently. when you have a bike you will understand

I do understand quite well...and I can imagine, a bus or a truck is a bit stronger

.same. · 10-04-2011 09:59PM

When I was four I was walking through a field, when all of a sudden I notice i've taken off in general direction of outer space as I started to return back to earth I could see a huge brown bull under me and he was intending on sending me off on another little trip as soon as I hit the ground.When I did hit ground my older brother helped me up and then both of us were sent towards the sky, as I was returning back down this time I saw "daddy" approching the scene fairly lively, lucky enough he had a shovel with him. This shovel broke when it connected with the bulls head for the second time but he had backed off enough for us to jump over a gate.
The bro and I escaped with few cuts and bruises only.

10-04-2011 10:01PM

Almost died of a chest infection as a toddler.

CD. · 10-04-2011 11:03PM

last august, was on the M50 early morning, car starts swerving, think wtf?? i asked my sister what she was doing, she told me that she lost control of the car (she was holding the steering wheel straight/trying to right the car, the wheels just weren't responding to it or anythign), it swerved slightly, went straight, slightly, straight then wildly. car spun, saw the barrier coming at me, thought "oh fuck, this is gonna hurt" put my hands up to protect my head/closed my eyes. car slammed into barrier, flipped and landed rightside up on the grass strip.

if the car was going slower it would have hit into the cars behind us, faster and we would have missed the barrier (hit the very end) and gone straight across the meridian.
window smashed in/covered in glass/stones which were also on the dashboard, there was glass in my mouth.

my only injuries was a bruise from the seatbelt and a small cut on my leg. my sister had a bit of back pain for a few months and is fine now.
had i tried to brace myself, my arm would have been torn to shreds by the glass. was told i could have lost my arm.

the weirdest part was the doctors and nurses when they checked on us, went oh...i heard about you guys.

scariest part was getting the xray on my spine and heard the words "disc, exploded" and "fluid" told a few minutes later i was fine, did i want to try sitting up?
also, those body boards they put you on? hurt like a motherfucker. started getting back pain in it, didnt know if it was from the board or the accident (the board)

later, going through the car wreck at where the car was taken to, i reached in teh window of the car, my sister opened the back door and the roof fell down, (we had to be cut out) was going to kill her. first she tried to kill me, then tried to sever my goddamned arm. my side of the car was pretty ****ed up, random holes from teh barrier piercing it, giant chunks just missing completely.

was shaken up for a few days, worst part was trying to explain to the emergency operator what had happened because i didnt know where we were other than m50 (i'm **** with directions) and she kept asking what we needed. like not if we were hurt or anything, just "what do you need" i'm sorry, i dont have this expeirence often enough to know off hand what we require? i ended up thrusting the phone at my sister because i started shaking/couldnt talk, took a few seconds to calm myself.

i think the firemen/police/other people were unnerved by how calm my sister and i were.
though my memory of it is slightly fragmented i cannot remember hearing any sound, i know my hearing was off afterward, but during the accident i remember no sound whats so ever. apparently the sound would have been horrific

my only thoughts through it all were that it was going to hurt and i wondered why the hell i could feel my hair while we were flipping.

pretty pissed off i didnt get any epiphany or anything. i want my flash of insperation/total understanding in return for potentially dying!

TouchingVirus · 10-04-2011 11:25PM

azezil wrote: »

It may be low but there is a 2% chance you'll die every time you're anesthetized.

But for me, yes it was 4 times, each of my surgeries was a matter of life or death.

I still think you're missing the point. Were you convinced you were going to die in surgery or while anaesthetised? I've been under 10 times for various things, from 'not so serious' right up to 'very serious' but I've never once thought "Well, as soon as the mask goes on I'm a goner" which is a bit different to other things posted on the thread.

If you were convinced you were going to die each of the 4 times then fair enough, it just wasn't clear in your initial post.

chillywilly · 11-04-2011 12:35AM

KeithAFC wrote: »

Plenty of times.

Care to expand?

ottostreet · 11-04-2011 12:54AM

TouchingVirus wrote: »

I still think you're missing the point. Were you convinced you were going to die in surgery or while anaesthetised? I've been under 10 times for various things, from 'not so serious' right up to 'very serious' but I've never once thought "Well, as soon as the mask goes on I'm a goner" which is a bit different to other things posted on the thread.

If you were convinced you were going to die each of the 4 times then fair enough, it just wasn't clear in your initial post.

You really are very pernickety, aren't you?

Humans eh! · 11-04-2011 01:14AM

Came around a bend on a main road on my brand new (in 1999) Bandit 600.
Lady doing a 3 point turn and I went straight into the side.
I flew over her roof for about fifteen feet and I remember distinctly a feeling of calm acceptance and a slowing down of time as I arced gracefully through the air thinking "so this is how I die?" It seemed to last for ages.

The bone shattering crunch as I hit the road put an end to my reverie.
Will never forget how calm I felt though. It felt like a dream.

TouchingVirus · 11-04-2011 02:58PM

ottostreet wrote: »

You really are very pernickety, aren't you?

Well the OP is fairly explicit - stuff where you thought you were going to die. Using the same logic I got from that person's first post somebody could write "stepping outside, it's a dangerous world out there, X percentage you'll be hit by a bus" and it'd be all right :pac:

Coeurdepirate · 11-04-2011 08:08PM

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Ive ever been near death as far as I know, I kinda feel like it will never happen to me, stupid I know.

Same here :S We'll be fine though, we'll just live in our bubble of naivety

Bad things only happen to other people right?

TeddyTedson · 11-04-2011 08:27PM

Coeurdepirate wrote: »

Same here :S We'll be fine though, we'll just live in our bubble of naivety Bad things only happen to other people right?

Yea I agree. I've never been sick or anything near death. Never even seriously injured myself? No broken bones, nothing.

I am invincible!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKO0RrM7LvI

Reamer Fanny · 11-04-2011 10:42PM

antodeco wrote: »

Flying from Seattle to Chicago. Hit a storm. Really bad turbulence when there was a loud flash. Lights go off in the plane and nosedives. I could feel the seatbelt holding me onto my seat. Sound of the plane rapidly descending and me saying my prayers. Plane levels off and the screams die down. Terrified of flying ever since...

I hoped you packed some clean underwear...

CrazyRabbit · 18-04-2011 03:11PM

Nothing too serious for me.

Was in a house fire was I was 7, and ended up with plastic from a melted highchair stuck to my clothes & skin. Managed to get my baby sister out though

And then a few years ago, I almost drowned on a motobike.

positron · 18-04-2011 03:47PM

Nothing serious here..

When I was about 4 or 5 and on my own, I climbed on to this antique wooden shelfs to get something from the top shelf. The whole thing fell over me - and luckily, somehow both doors flung open and the whole thing landed squarely on the doors - unbelievable luck. If it wasn't for that, the weight and the sharp shelfs would have chopped me into a few pieces. When my mom came running in from the garden, she was certain that I was a goner!

Flew out of CDG about 20 mins before Concord crashed. It could have been my flight - or it could have been my flight that left the debry on the track that caused the Concord to crash..!

Voodoomelon · 18-04-2011 11:00PM

At the fast, busy junction at Xerox in Dundalk, I was sitting on my push bike years back, waiting for the lights to change green in the pissing rain, at dusk. Lights on the horizontal turned orange so I knew my lights were up next, had a quick look right, then left, all clear so started cycling forward.

I was about 1 metre into the road and of a sudden, tearing into my field of vision from the right was a large saloon, doing 80kph+, obviously trying to make the lights which he'd missed by a good few seconds.

I turned my head, looked straight at it and went "oh shhhhhhhhhhh............", cue screeching of tyres on wet ground, he swerved at the last millisecond, went sliding right across the junction, a good 80-90ft and stopped a few feet before the queing cars on the opposite side. My legs went to jelly, I had to get off the bike a few metres up the road. He was about 36 inches away from me i'd say, i genuinely thought I was a gonner.

We were both in the wrong, I didn't wait for green and he broke his red but who gives a toss when you're lying dead on the ground. Scared the ****e out of me.

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