Author Topic: anybody else have a near death experience? (Read 927 times)

pimpjoe · « **on:** October 12, 2002, 10:18:51 PM »

i was recently hospitalized for a collapsed lung. almost killed me. fluke thing...weak spot in the tissue and it just kinda popped. worst thing about it is that im only 18. skeers the sheet out of me if ya know what i mean. doc said that i have a 50% chance of it happening again too. anyway....it has made me quit smokin, and drugs. i look at life in a whole new light now. makes me really think about things from a whole new perspective

sooooo....anybody else have anything similar happen to them? how'd you deal with it? its killin me just thinkin about almost dyin, and even more that it could happen again:(

help

Raubvogel · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2002, 10:37:01 PM »

I fell out of a helicopter at 200 feet.....that's alot of time to think about the fact that you're about to die.

Put it out of your mind man, or you'll drive yourself nuts. Relish the small things in life, enjoy everyday.

SunKing · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2002, 10:53:27 PM »

Woolie and I had our own "near death experience".

We were driving home from a paintball game one Saturday afternoon. There was a 17mph wind in the area. All of a sudden ahead of us the telephone poles started to sway. It happened so fast we had no time to react. We hit the 2nd pole in a row of 10 that fell down like dominos. The pole hit the right front corner of the car at about 65mph's. If we were 20 secs quicker I'm sure I would have been decapitated. After the impact we found ourselves under a mess of live wires. Thinking it through we were smart to stay put in the car where we were insulated by the tires. You could see the lines wiping around the hood of the car and the pavement around us.
I remeber thinking If I was gonna die I hope its fast, you always hear about people burning really slowly by live wires. I didn't have any of those " your life flashes before your eyes" feelings, instead I was upset and telling my self "
I'm not even 30! damnit this is bullsh*t"
To ad insult to injury, the Power company and emergeny personal showed but couldn't do anything to help us. According to PG&E "All their representives were busy" and couldn't assit to kill the power. We sat in that car for over 2 hours under lives wires awaiting our fate. Evetually someone arrived called in the lines to be shutdown and the doors pried open.
An ugly lawsuit followed and PG&E was kind enough to pay my tuition for a year resulting from that mess

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WldThing · « **Reply #3 on:** October 13, 2002, 12:09:49 AM »

I had salmonella when i was about 7 or 8 years old... Almost died from not eating. (They started poppin me with needles thats how i am here today).

About 12 years old i got hit by a car, many bones shattered... Recovery period was long.

There were probebly other ones that i dont remeber. I know someone is watching over me, thats what makes me happy... had a supernatural experiance as well, will NEVER forget that.

Animal · « **Reply #4 on:** October 13, 2002, 12:27:53 AM »

Two catastrophic car accidents, that if you saw the cars you'd think no one left alive.

At the moment I didnt think anything -- its the days afterwards that break your nerves.

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #5 on:** October 13, 2002, 01:59:06 AM »

Wow Pimpjoe, glad youre ok - was starting to wonder why you werent around shooting chutes!!

I was in a rather bad accident with my mother when I was younger - bout 10-12 years ago I guess. My seatbelt actually broke - I ended up ok after a few days in the hospital but I can still visualize looking out the passenger side window and counting the pieces of the windshield glass floating past the window in slow motion... scary.

Stay safe.

hawk220 · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2002, 04:26:56 AM »

Kidney failure.. every day is a near death experience.

Tumor · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2002, 06:25:32 AM »

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Originally posted by WldThing

... had a supernatural experiance as well, will NEVER forget that.

Ok you brought it up.... out with it ya wierdo!!

Saintaw · « **Reply #8 on:** October 13, 2002, 06:28:17 AM »

While doing speleology, I fell down a syphon(sp?), my bracers snapped, and I was stuck in mud from head to hip, couldn't move a finger. I remember being very calm about it... that feeling stopped when my buddies finaly pulled me out (heavy smoker, yet I stayed for more than two minutes without breathing, hehe

). I think I was going to shatter my bones because I was shaking so hard. Mostly laugh about it today though

Eagler · « **Reply #9 on:** October 13, 2002, 08:07:07 AM »

it ain't the happy/easy times which shape your life but the traumatic/hard ones ...
glad you are ok .. sometimes we need to be grabbed by the collar and shook hard in order to have some wrinkles fall out.

Maverick · « **Reply #10 on:** October 13, 2002, 02:20:28 PM »

Had a perp try to stab me while making an arrest. He actually hit me high abdoman area. Fortunately the vest I was wearing stopped the blade since it was a broad design. I had to take him down hand to hand.

Totalled out a mustang that made a sudden left turn in front of me. Hit him at 30 MPH broadside on a Police motorcycle. Went over the top. The result is a right arm that is less than functional and constant pain every day. Both were situations that could easily been fatal.

Wife was diagnosed with cancer a year after we were married. So far she is in remission and we are praying it stays that way.

Live the day. No one is guaranteed a set time on earth. There is more to life than the daily grind. Go for and live your dreams for tomorrow may never come.

WldThing · « **Reply #11 on:** October 13, 2002, 02:54:11 PM »

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Originally posted by Tumor

Ok you brought it up.... out with it ya wierdo!!

Okay. What had happened to me one day is im sitting on my couch watching a football game. I notice the tree i have in the corner of the room starts shaking madly, and im sitting there dumb founded while this damn thing is shaking. I stare at it for about 10 seconds and it stops.

I jumped up and went to the corner to see WTF was that. I look around the tree to see that there is nothing there, but then i thought how could such a big animal get in the damn corner and shake the thing.

I bang the doors to see if someone had banged the doors and thats why it shook. Nothing had come out of that, all the windows were closed so no wind could have blown it. Nobody else was in the room except me.

I wasnt scared i was just "stuck" i mean i had no explanation for it, except that it was something that i never experianced before. This sort of thing can play in my mind like it happened yesterday since it not a "usual" occurance.

So thats my supernatural experiance.

NOD2000 · « **Reply #12 on:** October 13, 2002, 03:33:09 PM »

no never had one:D

Vulcan · « **Reply #13 on:** October 13, 2002, 03:40:03 PM »

I had a good one. When I was a kid (6) I had a bad asthma attack, quite a bizzare one really. First I passed out in class, the teacher thought I was sleeping, til I started turning blue. Then she called my mother, who picked me up, right up til this point I was actually aware of what was going on but unable to move or do anything. Bout the time my mother got me home I lost full consciousness.

Next thing I know I'm sitting in a small room, very white, very bright. Theres a nurse, shes bringing me some cookies and milk. But I don't get to eat them, a doctor comes in and says something like its time to go back. BLAM I wake up to see a nurse hovering over me and taking my blood pressure with other nurses and doctors all around - then I pass out again.

Apparently they injected adrenaline straight into my heart and I'm guessing thats when I woke for a split second. Very bizzare, very vivid.

I'm not at all religious either. So go figure

Thrawn · « **Reply #14 on:** October 13, 2002, 04:28:54 PM »

MY sister has two friends that were both clinically dead for awhile. They are now born again atheists.