If you ever thought you were about to die, what did you think?

Question

I was very calmly getting into a bad car accident and I thought I was about to die. I just was suprised that's how I was going to go. But I wasn't scared.

Answer 1

As a hospice nurse, I was rather smug about facing death myself. I thought I had the whole issue wrapped up. Then, recently, I got sniffed by a grizzly. I grew up in Alaska with a great fear of grizzlies. The last thing I ever thought I'd have to face as an adult was a grizzly. She was enormous . . . and beautiful beyond description. She had come up from behind me where I was sitting on beaver workings by a river. She stood up, blocking the sun, just four feet behind me. I was done for. There was no escape. I sat as as still as I possibly could as she sniffed me. What a horrible shock to realize that death was inevitable. But, oddly, that feeling melted away to a strange feeling of perfect grace. Oh, there was going to be pain, but, pretty much quick death. I had accepted my death. And, in my final moments, I chose to boldly turn around and gaze upon her beauty against the setting sun. I mean, how many opportunities does one have exactly to gaze upon a wild grizzly face to face? I stood up slowly, fearlessly, knowing nothing mattered anymore, and we faced each other. We both gazed in utter wonder at each other and sniffed. She smelled like a glacier, so fresh and WILD. Her fur was perfect. I just gazed and gazed and gazed at the boogeyman from my childhood. She was magnificent. Her beauty took my breath away. I learned a whole lot more about Nature in that moment, about what existence REALLY is for all of us creatures, what sufferings, what nobility . . . all of that. Finally, she dropped back down to the ground and moved away, crossed the river and loped up the mountainside there. She had spared me! I plucked my way faster and faster across the beaver workings and dashed to the safety of my jeep to collect myself. I saw her halfway up the mountainside that rose from the river. I bravely got back out of my car, climbed up to the top of it, beat my chest like a primate and roared across the valley like a bear at her. She stopped, turned around, faced me . . .and roared right back! Then, she was gone. I'll never feel the same way about LIFE after that, not about death, but about LIFE. : )

Answer 2

I thought I was gonna die one night when my son and I were attacked by a group of racists, reason being I live near Detroit Michigan and the racist gang members often come to our town and we experience drive bys occassionaly. Well, anyhow, I remember thinking as my son lay on the ground knocked out, with 2 men kicking him in his head, that they would have to kill me before I stood back and watched it happen, I glanced around and 3 others surrounded the group of us, at the time I only weighed 110 pounds, but I ran in and pushed one with all my might, that was the last thing I remember, when I came to, I was on my feet and so was my son, and I was screaming bloody murder at these men, and they were just standing there staring at me. I don't know what happened, but whatever happened probably saved our lives. ;-)

Answer 3

I was in a burning mobile home, I could hear my husband calling and telling me to go to the window, but the smoke was so black I felt no sense of anything, except "this is it, I'm going to die. I can't get out. Please God, make it fast, " I don't think I passed out, because I was on my feet the whole time, but out of no where I was at the open window, where my husband grabbed my hand and pulled me out and down on the ground. I spent 6 days under sedation, being treated for smoke inhalation in our hospital's burn unit, They told my family there was no guarantee I would make it through, but to be thankful that I was not a smoker.

Answer 4

if your not afraid to die you should be good at fighting jk lol. Any ways when i was about to die i was drowning for 5 mins i thought about nothing i was panicking and wiggled like crazyy then i lost control of myself then i fainted didnt think about anything.

Answer 5

I m waiting for the same for some special reasons