How many times (if ever) have you almost been killed/died and did it effect you?

Question

For myself I count

A head on collision - 65 mph on both sides - There were a total of 3 people involved in that accident - 2 killed - and I walked away with minor injuries

Attacked by 3 guys strangled to until I was almost unconsious and had a bottle smashed over my head - Believe it or not the "fight" broke up because of the bottle smashed over my head - For some reason this got the guy on top of me off - He attacked the guy who hit me with the bottle - It was enough though

Apendix burst and I was unaware for a while - Poison ran through me as I began to halucinate - interesting - I was very lucky another 12 hr or whatever I would have either died on my couch or been beyond help


3 Times I have come very close to death -

It has made an impact on me but I am not sure how or in what way

Do you have any stories of similar nature and if so how did this impact you and your life ?

Answer 1

I was electrocuted when I was little and jumped off a galloping horse, too. Both times I had to go to the hospital, although at the time I did not realize that the accidents could have been fatal. Neither episode truly impacted me in my life, but the later made me think why I live the way I do - Why do we have such a difficult time with near-death experiences? Why do they create an impact in our lives? Shortly after the run-around with the horse, I got baptized. It was not the event that caused me to do so, because I had already decided I wanted to be, but my feelings afterwords. I was angry that it had happened to me.
I guess near-death experiences make us realize that we're just like everything else: we have a beginnning and an end, and all things must come to an end.

Answer 2

I had my last piton pullout while climbing. Fell twenty feet and landed on a grassy slope between two boulders. Looked up and went "I get the message, God." Never been climbing again, but will if my children want to learn. I learned to fly and then to hang glide later. At work, enough fires and explosions I've lost count. 27 years, 237 average number of employees, 7 dead, only luck prevented it from being 30 or 40. My work station was right on the edge of most of the explosions. Taught me I am a coward, but I can control the fear and continue to function. Also how to regain control if the fear does break through. I've also become a bit of an adrenaline junkie, which is part of the pleasure of hang gliding. I've risked my life to make the money I've made, so I'm a little bit cranky with people who waste it or do something that endangers me or my people needlessly.

Answer 3

I was absolutely shocked to stumble upon this question...! =)

This is because i have so much to tell...
Im starting to believe i have 9 lives!
Yeah... i had 5 close encounters with death.. Cheated it 5x!
THESE ARE ALL GENUINE BY THE WAY...

1st
Appendix got to me really bad when i was 12. It burst and the physical and emotional breakdown i went through was absolutely bad...
Poison ran through my system and started effecting my brain, where i started losing consciousness..
With just a 2 hour delay, i would have died.

2nd
Walking to college while listening to my ipod.. Didn't realize a bus was coming so close to me. Speeded pass me with just two inches of gap between the bus and my body.

3rd
Fell while jogging at a nearby park.. only to realize a broken glass sticking out from the ground few cm away from my head.

4th
Got into a packed bus and was standing right beside the door. Door accidentally opens and i nearly lost control and almost fell out. Bus was in the middle of a fast moving highway..

5th
Got mugged... Knife on my neck.. and he was about to slit my wrist because i only had very little cash at that time. He dragged me to a nearby bush. Thank god he freaked out when at the very same moment a car knocked a pole not so far away.
The noise was enough to scare the fcker who robbed me.


NOW TELL ME... DONT I HAVE 9 LIVES!!?? =p

Answer 4

I overdosed on an Ecstasy tablet about 1 1/2 years ago and I nearly died... choked on spew.... Thank god I didn't die!!

It impacted my life because I was ok with drug use b4 that day and since then I understand what people say when they say "Drugs ruin peoples lives!" Nothing good ever comes from illegal drugs! So I hate drugs so much I split with my old boyfriend cos he didn't want to stop and now I am studying to be a cop in hope that everyday I will be able to work to create a better future for other people and hopefully prevent some people using drugs.....

Answer 5

As a child I nearly died many times.
As an adult I nearly died when I was pushed down some stairs and had a miscarriage.

I can't explain how these things changed the person I've become except to say I learned that the most important thing you can have is love and that love is stronger than evil.


Love changes everything! Pandora

Answer 6

Though my experiences were many, none were as severe and frightening as yours! This is hard to explain and may sound strange, but things happened in my life that I didn't perceive. I guess I hid from them by seeing them individually, not collectively. About 6 years ago, I was telling my daughter about my close calls. As I remembered another and another, I was stunned! These are a few:

As a baby, we went to Yellow Stone Park. I must have been a little over a year old. My brother took me swimming and had me on a raft. A young girl came over, took me, and swam to the other side. Against my brothers objections, she stood me on the edge and swam away. I fell off and he dove in and saved me. He had nightmares for years about it. The same trip, my brother was holding me when suddenly a bear appeared. It tried taking me and clawed my thigh.

At 5, I nearly died from what Mom called the ‘hard measles’ and hallucinated. Around 12, my sister saved me from drowning. I nearly drown a year later when I dove into the same pond. Reeds had grown and I became entangled!

In high school; A goiter nearly took my life; Fell off a cliff and straightened neck vertebras and hurt my back (If I hadn't turned on the descent, my throat would have been crushed!); A bike accident broke my jaw (doctor said my jaw could have easily gone into my brain). My cousin and I nearly drove off an embankment (long story). One wheel hung over the edge and the car rested on the snow bank.

I don't know if it was shock, but twice I had experiences where it seemed like I wasn't in my body. Once was like watching from above after I fell when jumping from a train as a teen. It lasted only a moment, then things shifted back to normal. The other was giving birth. As things grew intensely serious, I remember screaming for God to help me. At that moment, I heard a voice or a thought that simply said, “Well, I’ll be! People really Do call for God when in extreme pain!” like some unemotional bystander making an observation.

There are more. But this is all I can think of or want to give details of here. If you are surprised, imagine how I felt when I began to see this list. You asked if these things had an impact on me. Not at the time, for I didn't think about them. But viewing them as a whole made a huge impact! I began to wonder if I was here for a reason. I mean, I really shouldn't be here at all! I've tried to recall everything and write them all down. I've started to write them many times. But I always stop and wonder if I'm overrating these things and being overdramatic. Honestly, I don't know what to think about them… but I believe in angels because someone (or a whole league) must be watching out for me!

Actually, despite the length of this, I'm going to tell you one more. Due to severe abuses, I tried committing suicide several times… but lived. It amazes me that I survived. Eventually, I realized God just WASN'T going to let me out so easily, so I quit trying. Then something very powerful and exceptionally spiritual happened that changed my life forever! I won't write about it here because it’s much too personal for such a broad audience. But it turned my life around and I'm learning to be happy! I feel more alive than I've felt in years… perhaps ever! I still have my moments, but I am resolved in my quest for harmony, healing and my new found spirituality.

Answer 7

Pulled 3 unconscious people from a home fire, and broke a few peoples bones unfortunately... After hypoxia sets in you don't realize you are slipping into shock.

The next few months the grass is a little greener, the sun shines a little brighter, and one realizes death is not as important as life.

Answer 8

Hey! You've been too close too many times!
When I was about 18, I was visiting a boyfriend in Attica prison, At the time, I was Catholic, and my boyfriend wanted to turn Catholic for me, and for when he got out of prison. He had been studying with the prison priest. The priest requested to see me and council both my boyfriend and myself. I went to the Prison Rectory, my boyfriend let me in and said the priest was late, but would be right back. We waited awhile, but my boyfriend had to return to his cell, so I kept waiting in the Rectory. A short while later, someone had entered the Rectory, but it wasn't the priest. It was an inmate who had seen me go into the building. He was very big, and scary looking..He put his hands around my throat, and threatened me that if I didn't take my clothes off, I would be killed. I was terrified, with his huge hands choking me, and I didn't know how I was going to get out of this, as he yelled, "Do It! I've killed before!"
I guess I just moaned out loud, "Jesus help me!",,,and thru some divine intervention, the criminal let go of my throat, and turned around and ran out the door!
Of course it made an impact on me, I felt God's protection for me. It could have turned out terribly and I'm very grateful that it didn't!
Another time, a meter man came to my house, and wanted to read the meters in the basement. I had a dog, Dusty, who always barked when they came, but this time he was really barking loud and continously. I escorted the meter man to the basement, but a little red flag when off in my head, as he mentioned "electricity'...but he was looking at the gas meter! I excused myself, went upstairs and came down with Dusty, a male, Shepherd, Collie, Husky mix! Dusty was going to charge at the man, I had him on a leash, but the guy ran for his life, up the stairs and out! A few days later, there was a composite drawing in the newspaper, of a rapist who had been going around to peoples homes in that area, claiming to be a meter man! I was really terrified at that point, to think of what the outcome might have been.
It did of course, affect me. I am not as trusting anymore about letting strangers in, I always answer the door with my dog,
( as if they let you go to the door, without them, anyway!)
I believe I was again protected by God, by using Dusty as my protective or Guardian Angel.
There have been a few other instances, which were extremely scary and I don't know just what the outcome might have been, but they were cut short, the situation turned around and all ended well...but very close..
The biggest impact on my life, over these "close calls" is that I feel strongly about the protection that I've mysteriously received! I'm grateful for it!

Answer 9

Do you have an addictive nature? sure, the laptop can substitute into an obsession. Make it a element to decrease back removed from the laptop and do something effective--pastime, exercising, force to the keep for something mandatory around the homestead, backyard artwork, challenge, etc.

Answer 10

There were a few times that were scary, where I thought about death being a very real and imminent possibility. I've included eight times here, but there are more. In all but one, I remember thinking death would be happening soon. I've come away from these experiences realizing how precious life is and appreciating life more. I also realize how fleeting and fragile human lives are.

When I was about one, my parents tell me I thought I was a fish and would go under water at the swimming pool and just lay there. They thought I was drowning one time. Don't remember that one. GO MR LIMPET!!!

At age three, I was chained to a tree and thought I was going to be stabbed or hung. Managed to escape that one.
Hyperventilated afterwards after running away. I don't know if that could have killed me, but it felt like it.

At around age 4 or five, I ran into the woods and got lost for a few hours. Saw a bear. Fortunately, did not get eaten by the bear. I was found by people.

At around 10 or so, I had a fever of 105 that wouldn't go away. I started to hallucinate and thought I was going to pass out. I was taken to a doctor in the early morning hours and got a shot of some weird blue liquid that cured me.

Around the same age, I was on a 707 or 727 flying in for a landing with about a hundred or so people on board. I had just begun to wake up from a nap, and I guess I missed the announcement from the pilot to put on seat belts and also forgot to put on my seat belt as we were landing. There was an announcement that we would be experiencing "a little turbulence" as we approached the airport. At that point, I looked around and realized that everyone except me had their seat belts on. I fumbled to buckle up, but the turbulence began to set in, I thought the plane was going to crash, and, for a few seconds, I began experiencing weightlessness, then hit my head on the roof of the plane, and immediately dropped back down into my seat !!!!!!!! In the immortal words of Roseanne Rosanna Danna, " I THOUGHT I WAS GONNA DIE!!!!!!!!!!" Good thing I woke up when I did.

Dad let me pilot a small plane we were flying, and I tried following his instructions, but ended up turning the plane on its side and flying around in a circle until Dad took the controls again. At the time I thought it was funny and very cool, but looking back, it seemed like a very dangerous thing to be doing, and that we could have crashed and died.

Once during my teen years, I was on an amusement park ride with my cousins. It was a ferris wheel type ride where you go into a car shaped vehicle and instead of glass windows there's a cage to keep you from falling out. The "car" is attached to the frame of the ferris wheel on the front and back of the car and can spin and turn you upside down when you're at the top. I thought we would be strapped in with belts or something, but we weren't. So, when we reached the top and spun upside down, our faces got smashed against the caging and we were staring one or two hundred feet down to the hard hard pavement below !!! I looked to make sure the door to the car was secure, and all I could see was this rusty old hinge type thing barely keeping the door closed. That was scary!!!! I thought about death at that moment. It seemed like I was the only one who noticed that rusty old hinge, but everyone else also wondered why we weren't strapped in. As you can imagine, I never went on that ride ever again.

That's about all I can think of at the moment, I think there are more, but they're probably all less severe than the ones mentioned and just have to do with minor illnesses and accidents. Interesting how all happened when I was very young. As you may have sensed, I have a very good sense of humor and can look back at these events, put them into perspective, and pretty much just laugh at them. So, I don't believe these experiences have affected me too adversely. At worst, maybe kept me from trying things that I thought had any danger to them.

There was one time I can remember as an adult, where I was in what we called a "Cat", it was a vehicle used for grooming ski trails. Two other guys and I were going towards and nearing the summit. As we approached the summit, we got stuck on a patch of ice. I wasn't the one driving and looked back as we began rapidly slipping toward a very large pine tree. I anticipated hitting the pine tree at a high rate of speed, being thrown from the vehicle and dying. My life flashed before my eyes. Fortunately, our driver managed to gain some traction on snow and slow the vehicle down before we hit, which is why I am still here today.