Alrite, I'm just wondering what's the closest any of you guys been to death. Please post up your stories! Alrite, here's mine..

My first brush with death happened when I was in 6th grade or something. I was swimming in a pool at my friend's house as my friend went inside to get a drink. I was dead in the middle of the pool when a cramp struck my leg. I was struggling to tread and stay afloat, but the pain cause me to be unable to move my leg and cause me to sink. I begin to panic and tried to grasp for air. Luckily, my friend came back and pulled me in.

My second time was when my 3 friends and I were fishing at the pier in long beach. We had a boom box and everything. As we were leaving, a group of thugs, about 10 or 12 of them, were walking up the pier. They came up to us and told us to give up our wallets and boom box. We didn't want to give it up and exchange harsh words with each other and were going to fight. When things were about to get out of hand, two of the other guy reached into their backpacks and pulled out a gun and pointed it at us. At this moment, my friends and I were scared straight so we gave up everything, including our bus passes. After we dropped everything, one of my friend made a run for it and after that, we all ran. We had to go around asking for money to take the bus home after that.

Now tell me yours!

Probably a couple of seconds ago... I sneezed like 5 times in a row... and you know what they say...

When you sneeze.. your heart stops...

Does eating Army Food count?

As far as I know, travelling in a car or walking about the city drunk.

I am a very stupid man, there are plenty of stories.

Please enlighten us Snuffy!

The driving is so bad here in Kentucky, that I have a brush with death pretty much every day of my life.

When I was pregnant with my first child, I got toxemia (hypertension of pregnancy or pre-eclampsia) and a severe case can cause you can stroke out or have a heart attack. I was put on bed rest in my sixth month. At the end of my seventh month, they put me in the hospital. After over a week in the hospital, I started feeling really weird. I started seeing white things floating about and I knew I didn't feel right. I told the husband to get the nurse. She took my blood pressure and then ran for the doctor. They induced labor. I was pretty close to having a stroke.

My boy, Matthew, was born weighing 4 pounds, 6 ounces. He was perfect in every way and didn't even need an incubator. He is almost 16 now and weighs over 160.

I was out of danger after he was born. But they didn't tell me until after how close I came to death. I feel pretty blessed that I had a doctor who knew what he was doing.

That's an awesome story, a miracle if you ask me!

When I choked on an ice cube!!! ....... no..... really, lol.

Embarrassing- I was choking on a sucky sweet a couple of years ago-0 havn't touched one since

I don't care to share my story........tis a side of pandy very few know of

It's kind of creepy but listen to this:
For those of us who have never come close to an accident or anything like that, the closest that we've ever been to death is this very moment, for we are closer than we have ever been before.
I just made that up
But if you think about it...it's true

Damn... loads of times but thanks to the training I managed to get the advantage? However my luck has to run out some day.

I have a sign on me that says "Cars try and hit this guy!" but only I can't see it or take it off...

Actually...since none of us are dead it's true for all of us.

I was dead for a few minutes in hospital at the age of 5..... 2 or three minutes I think... after having my 3rd or forth convulsion or something.......

I dont think I can get any closer then that...lol

If one posts that one does not care to share a story, then one truly does want to share the story...otherwise one would not have even posted at all....so....

...share the story Pandy....share damn it!

Im like snuffy, too many to count.

When you're a klutz like me, you take your life in your hands just getting out of bed... LOL

Well, once on my way to pick up some mat board, I lost control of my car and ah, flipped it end over end three times. My car died pretty good, but I didn't.

Ah, Snuffy and his lead foot.

When I was little I choked on a butterscotch hard candy -_-;;


But actually, the better story is Werewolf of Doom's, and I suppose partially mine. When we were babies, preemies with twin-to-twin transfusion, she only had a 5% chance to live; mine was better. So we're both -really- lucky to be here today.

Well....

When I was 6 I jumped in front of a semi truck. Unscathed.
When I was 10 I almost drowned in a swimming pool, got pushed and I hit my head, but I surfaced a while after.
When I was 16 I tried to strangle myself with my belt (Suicide is an awful thing)
When I was 18 I was hit by a semi truck on the highway.
When I was 19 I fell 20 feet off of a ladder and it a kitchen exhaust hood.

That's my deathly story.

Oh, yeah!
Almost drown in a pool. I think everyone has that story!
Now this wasn't the time I almost drown but I have a great pool story that not everyone has:
At a pool with my friend. We decided to have a diving contest. I dove OFF OF A DIVING BOARD and hit the bottom of the pool. It hurt really bad, I got a pretty severe concussion, my two front teeth (top) went through my lip, broke my nose and some blood vessels in my eyes. I still have a couple of scars, which have faded alright but it has been about 9 years since it happened. Now that leads me to a story of a time I came very close to dying. When I hit the bottom of the pool, I also got a cut on my arm. A couple of days after my accident, my arm hurt worse than my face. I started to get a really bad fever, I went home and went to bed. I woke up at about 3 a.m. cause I had to puke. I felt real crappy so I woke my mom up. She told me that my arm was really swollen, so she took me to the emergency room. The doctor in the emergency room said that I had an infection (cant remember what). Anyway, the infection had spread all the way up my arm, into my lymph node in my armpit, and then into heart/entire blood stream. They had to give me a shot right in the infection (which felt GREAT) a shot in the armpit, so it would go right into my lymph node, then I had to be on medication for a week after that. It ruled, and needless to say:
I HAVE NOT JUMPED OFF A DIVING BOARD IN MORE THAN 9 YEARS, AND PROBABLY NEVER WILL AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah, when I was a kid I almost choked to death on a Werthers® candy. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................... Werthers.

Well it would probably that time i got stabbed.

I had just came back from America, and bought my bar. So this lead people to belive that i had alot of money on me. I got mugged, tried to fight, and i was winning until one of em stabbed me.

And then the time i was shot at.

It was around a 2 and a half years ago my bar was broken in to, but i was living in the bar at the time. So i woke up and caught him stumbling around so i yell "GET OUT" well he fired a couple of shots. All missed me. And ran out the bar.

lets see... i've had the almost drown thing, at about the age of 8.. i wasnt really allowed to have swimming lessons due to being stuck in a brace (yay for me) but still had a few anyway.. anyhoo i sank like a rock and had to be fished out of the ocean by my dad.. yay for dads.. also asthma attacks where my lungs spasm and i cant breathe in or out.. all i can do is drool like a loon.. its quite attractive

one where i dont remember a thing, but was told about it.. i was taken out of my parents bedroom (off their bed to be exact) when i was a bub after having the nanna nap.. a couple of minutes later a car comes crashing through their bedroom wall, straight through their bed which i was on, and kindly stops.. we live on a straight road, so the guy was under the influence of alcomahol..

at the age of 5.. in kindergarten, all us kiddies were stuck inside due to a thunderstorm going on.. all of a sudden there is this massive BOOOM.. and a tree right near the window where we were playing gets struck by lightening.. pretty damn cool thing that was

primary school, yr six.. down at the oval playing at 'little lunch' one kid is near a tree and notices something weird.. pokes at it with a stick and a handgun falls from the branches, it was wrapped in a hanky.. she proceedes to pick it up saying "bang bang".. we later find out that it was cocked and ready to go

in hospital.. i was on a specialised bed after an op called a stryker bed.. you get turned every 4 hours or so.. well some bright spark forgot to put a pin in while flipping the bed.. and the bed collaspes, with me narrowly missing having my head knocked off.. luckily i had 4 nurses around the bed on a course that were able to catch me before i hit the ground.

I got knocked off my bike when I was 18. Some prick tried to overtake me as I was making a turn. I remember the whole thing, the feeling of dread as the car hit me and I flew about 6 foot into the air, smacking my head on the ground, and sliding along the road.

The worst thing was the sound I heard when I my head hit the road. It was kinda like the sound the pins make in ten pin bowling when you get a strike.

one witness said to me - 'you should be dead', but all I got was a few bad cuts and bruises, oh and a free ambulance ride!

no....

more unsettling than the times you know you were close to death (with the exception of those that "were dead" for a few minutes) are those close calls you don't even know happened. the "what if's".

i shared an apartment with him once.
he snores.

That story is pretty much the same as my 'brush with death' story. I don't think my doctor was too competent though. Luckily I was able to hold on and labor was induced just 2 weeks early.

The closest I came to death is when we were flying out of Da Nang and we got hit by ground frie, Luckly the pilot had his sh** together and was able to get the chopper under control and land us saftley in a rice paddy My life flashed before my eyes that day

Looking at the wrong end of a .357 magnum revolver held by a nervous small city police officer. He had the hammer pulled back and sure convinced me he was ready to pull the trigger.
Or having a .22 automatic pressed against my head by a desparate drug dealer.
You choose:

Wow, some of you guys had some really cool story, thank you for sharing! any more?

Two words...for that one ..... ABSYNT TRIP... and also


Horse Riding accident......... and 3 car accidents ...and thats about it .....i guess i used up 5 of my life lines...

hrm....death is but the eternal sleep that all must fal into.......wait oops..sorry anyway...
I was at my favoritest beach of all time , and well(foreshadowing) this huge rip current came in and pulled me in..i was so a frighted...i was conflicted on which way to go ,, either out more(where my dad was surfing) or try to swim back to shore..i was out there for what seemed like maybe 30 minutes going a few feet each way..then i got scared that i might not find my dad out at sea, so i tried to go back to the shore....i lost my trunks , and my water shoes..........thanks to that harrowing event i havent been to a pool or the beach in about 3 years, and i dont plan on going back in water.........ever...

I have come close to death many many times..but too alful and tragic to discuss..

i was always a good swimer and when i was 8 , i was in a beatch and i saw some ppl really away from the coast(somethintg like 500 meters), i swimed so i could get near them and when i got there i reallised that they were just floaters(i dont know if this is the right way to say it) sinalizing a fishermans net, then i just got it by a huge like 5-6 meters wave and i became rolling underwater,it was not that i couldnt breath it was more like i couldnt even try to do it and i didnt felt the need anymore, hapilly te strenght of the wave made me roll allthe way to the beatch, i didnt went to swim again that day,ad i still have a little fear of the sea.

i think it was 2 years ago that i went to a natural park and there was a bridge made of ropes (very instable construction i must say), and ppl would have fun trying to pass to the other side (even tought that was over a little tiny river with just a few centimeters high and it had a distance from the ropes to the ground around 6-7 meters), i passed a lot of times but in of those i triped and i could only get my right arm to grab one of the 3 ropes (1 to be used as a ground and the other 2 to grab with your arms), wich made the bridge to tottaly turn over, i justed pulled my body up and tryed to get to the other side, wich made me panic a little cos of the fear and the fact that i was almost in the middle of the bridge, it may not be the closest i was to death but it was really a scary experience, and it leaved a mark: now i'm afraid of heights.

And last, this one is stil going on, unfortenly: i have a unknown disease that seems to evolve troughtout my life and sometimes "attacks": when i was around 5-9 it made me fell weak when it happened and i couldnt stay up, around 10-13 i also started to feel dizzy and i had dificultty in breathing, around 14-17(today) i feel every single thing that happens and after that i feel like a violent shock of lightning and cold that makes me faint instantanly, last time it striked it was in the class room and my friends and teacher say that i was fainted for 5 minutes, but to me it seemed more like 2 seconds, and that disease or whatever it is, maybe what will take my life in the future.

i apologize to everibody for the long post.

When I was about 5 yrs old,my Dad put a tub of paracetamol up on a shelve and told me not to touch them as they were not sweets

I took alot of them and was rushed to hospital where I had my stomach pumped...whilst they were pumping my heart stopped beating and I stopped breathing...they had to resuscitate me.

Thats the closest I ever want to get to death.

Last year I was driving to my sister's house at around 11 PM. Just as I pulled in the driveway I was blinded by a tremendous flash of lightning accompanied by the loudest "boom" I've ever heard.

Lightning had struck a large tree and caused it to fall down on the same road I just drove by.
If I had been there 10 seconds earlier, I would have been squished like a bug.

When I was in the third grade, my family and I took a trip to California. We were on our way to Universal Studios, when we got in a car accident. I was in the front with no seatbelt. my chin hit the dashboard in front of me. I wasn't hurt though

dont you think its weird , how so many people have come close to death , and lived..that just shows the world how truly stupid and easily killed humans really are
lol

one that nearly happened to my mum and friend.. my mum was driving a mate to work, there was a pretty bad storm happening.. when the car stalled. she got it going again, pulled into work and to her usual parking bay.. a few ppl came running out saying a massive bolt of lightening touched down where she parks her car minutes before.. if the car hadnt have stalled.. the car would have been hit

kind of a similar experience with my boyf and i.. we were standing outside watching a storm (more me than he though.. i love storms) under the garage. we live in a townhouse so the garage is not connected to the house. i wandered off to do something that i cant quite remember.. and was near the doorway of the house when everything just went white.. and at the same time the hugest boom of thunder... my boyf breaks the land speed record trying to get inside.. he saw the lightening touch down just outside our house... i missed it (dammit)

As a child i went on a trip to niagra falls with my family. That morning my parents bought me a new hat and i was flaunting it, like crazy, the whole day. It was a realy windy day that day, and i was eager to have a look over the railing to see how far down the falls went. Well as i was looking over the railing a gust of wind blew my hat off my head and onto a little ledge right under me, and me being the dumb kid i was i thought that i could reach the hat by leaning over the railing. Bad idea. As i began to reach for the hat i lost my footing on the lower railing and began to flip over top railing. Right before i completly fliped over i felt a tug on the back of my pants and the next thing i knew it i was being yanked back over the railing and onto the pavement. Just to give you an idea as to how far over i wentm, when i was being yanked back over i hit my knees on the top railing, meaning just a few more seconds and i wpuld have been well out of reach. I never did get my hat back.

since all are sharing their interesting stories

when I was about 3 or 4 .. I was with my family in summer vacation in Spain .. my sis pushed me into the pool and I didn't know how to swim .. (was almost going to drown) when i noticed the stair case in front of me and pulled my self up..

when I was about 5 .. I was traveling with my Family to Syria .. our car got stuck in the ice .. the road was very slippery and while i was running across the road i slipt and fell right behind the car which was sliding towards me ..

I crashed into a huge rock with my bicycle when i was probably 15

Last year .. I went on this cliff and the pebbles were slippery .. and when I fell .. Luckily I didnt even reach the endge of the cliff

Well I believe being under sedation counts in a sense. I had to undergo gallbladder surgery. I was asleep or under sedation. And when I woke. I told the lady I said I just dreamed about my baby. She was beautiful. I believe once people are gone or dying they see things that make them happy. My daughter is what essentially makes me happy. I love her with all my haert and she is the best. I just remember playing with her and talking to her while I under sedation. It was wonderful.

Well, gosh. When I was seven there was a flu going around and all the kids in my family got it, so when I had the same symptoms my mom treated me like I had the flu. Finally, when I collapsed in excruciating pain, she took me to the doctor and it turned out I didn't have the flu after all. It was an appendecitis. It was already perforated and they did emergency surgery within a couple of hours.

This isn't quite such a certain brush with death, but I have one more story. Several years ago I was driving home (I live in the country) late at night. There was a torrential rainstorm when I started, but when I turned off the state highway onto the little county highway the rain almost completely stopped. I was tempted to drive faster, but I had the weirdest feeling! The only way I can think to describe it is, I felt the way a ghost might feel re-living the last hours of its life. Because of that feeling I was driving really slowly. I was almost to the end of the road when I came to a place where the road curved around and dipped at the same time. I was partway down the hill and around the curve when I realized the trees looked too close to the road, so I stopped and got out. At first I thought a tree was down, but it wasn't. A culvert under the road there had gotten clogged and the creek that was normally three or four feet below the road surface had risen and was rushing across the road. If I hadn't been going so slowly I'd have driven right into it.