Do you ever think back on time when you almost died?

Question

and wished that you had?

Answer 1

no

Answer 2

At different points yes....and when you do come close to dying and survive...you find out that things good/bad happen for a reason.
One of my best friends gave his life to save mine...and for a long while I felt guilty....that I should have died instead. There have been points in my life where I have screamed, "God what were you thinking...that he should die and I live in this S***...but once I got back to the point of reason, I realized that it wasn't my time...and the best way I could go on is to remember the life of my friend was to help others and be the best person that I could be so that his gift to me wouldn't be wasted.
There are always going to be times when things look so bleak that you feel that it hurts to breath and the thought of having to endure one more single moment of life is just so overwhelming that you want to scream....but please remember this.
Death is final. There are no second chances once you and Death join company. There are so many lives (people you know now and those that you have yet to meet) that you are meant to touch in some way. When something is taken away...sometimes something greater is given back.
(My best friend died on Sept. 18, 1995...my daughter was born Sept. 18, 2004...God takes away....but he gives back too.)
Please take care...and God Bless....

Answer 3

For years after my head on collision that left me broken and in constant pain I wished that I had died that night. Dealing with the pain has become my life. I used to swear at God for letting me live. Now, I praise Him for my life. I met the most wonderful woman, my best friend and soul mate and my life has new meaning. I realize now that I'm here for a reason....even though I still live in constant pain.

Answer 4

Yes and No

I think back but am glad I pulled out some streak of luck and didn't hit anything as I was sliding into that gulley sideways at 80 miles per hour....

Answer 5

If I almost died, then I do not remember it. I have a bad memory. I do not want to die, I am glad I'm alive.

Answer 6

Sometimes I do and Sometimes I don't ... A very mixed thinking that is affected by my on going life ...

Answer 7

Absolutely not. There is no such thing as death anyway; any more than when a baby dies to the mother's womb, is it death. This is merely the womb of the next world. When we leave here, we don't leave ourselves, we go with us. Every spiritual quality we develop here--our spiritual eyes, ears, arms, legs--constitute our spiritual vehicle in the next world. We have the opportunity, here, to develop strong compassion, loving kindness, truthfulness, love, mercy, justice, etc. here so that we will have a beautiful, strong wonderful life there. If we fail to develop those qualities, here, we will be weak and handicapped there. The only escape from ourselves, if we don't like ourselves, is to change ourselves into something we can live with, 'cause we ain't leavin' ourselves here. We all go "there". Our heaven, there, will be the spiritual qualities we've develop here; and, our hell "there" will be the knowledge that we could have developed them here, and didn't. We don't have to die to go to heaven or hell. We can experience them right here. But, we can change all that.

Heaven and Hell

Bahá’u’lláh and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá regard the descriptions of Heaven and Hell given in some of the older religious writings as symbolic, like the Biblical story of the Creation, and not as literally true. According to Them, Heaven is the state of perfection, and Hell that of imperfection; Heaven is harmony with God’s will and with our fellows, and Hell is the want of such 191 harmony; Heaven is the condition of spiritual life, and Hell that of spiritual death. A man may be either in Heaven or in Hell while still in the body. The joys of Heaven are spiritual joys; and the pains of Hell consist in the deprivation of these joys.
‘Abdu’l-Bahá says:
When they [men] are delivered through the light of faith from the darkness of these vices, and become illuminated with the radiance of the sun of reality, and ennobled with all the virtues, they esteem this the greatest reward, and they know it to be the true paradise. In the same way they consider that the spiritual punishment … is to be subjected to the world of nature, to be veiled from God, to be brutal and ignorant, to fall into carnal lusts, to be absorbed in animal frailties, to be characterized with dark qualities … these are the greatest punishments and tortures. …

… The rewards of the other world are the perfections and the peace obtained in the spiritual worlds after leaving this world … the spiritual graces, the various spiritual gifts in the Kingdom of God, the gaining of the desires of the heart and the soul, and the meeting of God in the world of eternity. In the same way the punishments of the other world … consist in being deprived of the special divine blessings and the absolute bounties, and falling into the lowest degrees of existence. He who is deprived of these divine favours, although he continues after death, is considered as dead by the people of truth.

The wealth of the other world is nearness to God. Consequently it is certain that those who are near the Divine Court are allowed to intercede, and this intercession is approved by God. …

It is even possible that the condition of those who have died in sin and unbelief may become changed; that is to say, they may become the object of pardon through the bounty of God, not through His justice; for bounty if giving without desert, and justice is giving what is deserved. As we have the power to pray for these souls here, so likewise 192 we shall possess the same power in the other world, which is the Kingdom of God. … Therefore in that world also they can make progress. As here they can receive light by their supplications, there also they can plead for forgiveness, and receive light through entreaties and supplications.
Both before and after putting off this material form, there is progress in perfection, but not in state. … There is no other being higher than a perfect man. But man when he has reached this state can still make progress in perfections but not in state, because there is no state higher than that of a perfect man to which he can transfer himself. He only progresses in the state of humanity, for the human perfections are infinite. Thus however learned a man may be, we can imagine one more learned.

Hence, as the perfections of humanity are endless, man can also make progress in perfections after leaving this world.—Some Answered Questions, pp. 260, 261, 268, 269, 274.

Answer 8

I have thought back on it but no, now I'm glad I didn't die.

Answer 9

No,I'm lucky to have survived.

Answer 10

No, it'll happen soon enough.