whats your closest near death experiecne
 

tl:dr for me:


tried to jump from a ladder to the roof of my 3rd story apartment. ladder didnt reach the top so i jumped vertically and sideways onto my roof and half my body made it onto the roof. had to pull myself up. i had been locked out and was tryin to go thro the attic window.

so i didnt fall but that was probably the closest. if i didnt make that jump i prob woulda broken a lot of bones, maybe died.

also smashed a car into a tree when i was 17 but wasnt hurt


whats your nearest death experience??

Clubbing in Belgrade is about as close to death as I've ever found myself, on two occasions:

In 2010, I got beer spilled on me by a crazy girl who thought I was trying to pick up her boyfriend, then a group of five guys started carrying me somewhere and I lost a shoe. Luckily my friend rescued me before **** got real. But I don't remember anything after the beer incident. I threw a punch and then got knocked out.

In November I was at a club there that was so full of cigarette smoke I could feel my lungs closing up. Then some guys with fire extinguishers jumped up on the bar and started spraying fog(?) to make the place even smokier. I couldn't see anyone and saw my life flash before my eyes. Then my boyfriend started passing me shots. Of course I was later in the bathroom hurling and noticed that there was already 2 inches of mysterious liquids on the floor. I thought dying might be better than that situation but I managed to survive.

Just weeks after my 5th birthday I was hit on my bicycle by a drunk driver.

The injuries were severe enough to rob me of my peripheral eyesight for the rest of my life.

Then there was the time in summer of '10 when I had to choose between hitting 2 deer and rolling the car I was driving, killing both myself and a passenger. (Luckily I only hit one of the deer - I managed to slow down to about 25-35mph, barely clipped the poor thing but still enough to kill, sadly.)

Also the number of times my ex threatened to kill me were enough to make me honestly believe that he would have done it eventually.

Not sure if this counts but I did something really stupid once and was convinced I'd contracted HIV. Was too scared even to get tested, kept it to myself and left it for ages (stupid I know). Played on my mind for ages & eventually I just accepted it and went, tested negative & can't really describe the relief tbh. I learned my lesson btw.

Few things abroad like being chased w/ a knife, also had a fall when drunk while fighting & hit the back of my head which could have been worse. Few nasty situations where I live, generally would say I've been quite lucky and long may that continue. *touch wood*

woah & also explains that thread. Did anything happen to him?

no, my mother let him go.

Either because she was a kindhearted person (before she took a trip to crazytown) or an idiot.

It is hilarious how you can't spell the word 'experience'.

I loved those slide shows as kid/teen.........one of my favourite things is to jump on youtube and watch hour after hour of mad Russian car crashes

Had a few out of body experiences on psychedelics but whether people are really close to death in those moments, I don't know. Very, very strange though.

As kids, we set up this swing on a tree on a hill that swung out a good 30 feet over some huge boulders, it snapped when I was on it once, but luckily it snapped when I was swinging back over the hill. Had it snapped when I was swinging out I think I probably would have died.

As kids whilst on holiday in Egypt, my brother and I took out a little boat from a beach and rowed for miles into the busy port of Alexandria, we quickly realised we were in unsafe waters and rode as hard as we could to get away, but ended up rowing into an even busier part of the port. At one point we had a massive cargo ship coming straight for us but were too exhausted to escape. Thankfully a lifeguard boat came and pulled us to saftey with less than a minutes to spare. That was kinda funny, kinda scary. Pretty sure we would have been dead had the ship hit us.

In Israel, my then girlfriend who was Jewish and I went to Hebron. After a little while we noticed we were being followed by a few shady looking people, the people following us slowly grew in size and started throwing rocks at us and eventually chased us through the streets. By sheer luck while running for our lives we found a taxi which we jumped in and shouted "drive, just drive!". It felt like something out of a movie and was probably the most terrified I've been, they were full of hatred and it felt like they wanted to murder us, especially as an IDF soldier had been killed by an angry mob in the same city a few days earlier during the second intifada.

Again in Israel, a bomb went off in Old Jerusalem and, being young and stupid, I wanted to go to the bomb site and managed to convince my girlfriend we should go to the scene. We fought our way to the scene against hoardes of people all moving in the opposite direction, some in tears, and when we arrived it was all very quiet and very strange. We wandered around a bit and within a few minutes wandered straight into an angry mob of Palestinians. We turned around and started walking in the opposite direction, straight into a group of IDF soldiers. The next thing we know the two groups are attacking eachother, shots are firing out, stones are being thrown and we're smack bang in the middle of it, crawling around on the floor. Hairy scary.

I've almost drowned a few times when I was younger, I remember the first time being about 5 or 6 and thinking I still had my armbands on, so I jumped in the swimming pool. I remember vaguely thinking about death but I don't think I understood what it really was then but I knew something really bad was happening.

Love all the stories



magic johnson put it in ur butt didn't he

I drove my dirtbike off of a cliff when I was 17 and shattered my collarbone into pieces. I was inches from landing with my head pointed downwards. Would have broke my neck and I would have rather been dead then unable to walk.

Was surfing out at San Onofre about two years back. A 18 foot Tiger Shark swam up and took a chunk out of my board. If I would have been bitten two miles off shore i would have died certainly.

Was in a Mini Cooper that flipped three years back with a friend. Nobody was hurt. Other then that just adrenaline spikes of fear.

There have been quite a few incidents, but the one that really stands out for me was when I was 18 driving around with 3 friends near Kenosha WI after a big snow. I was in the passenger seat and we were at a 4-Way stop sign just pulling across the road when out of the corner of my eye I saw headlights coming right at us. I felt the hit and that was all I remember until I woke up about a minute later. We were up over a bank of snow and when I looked around I saw the car that hit us still spinning down the street. I looked to my left and saw the driver slumped over the steering wheel and checked for the two passengers in the back. There was only one. I got out of the car and could hear some moaning in the distance so I followed. I found my friend who had busted through the back window and was thrown about 50 ft with a head gash from his forehead to the back of his skull. I was so enraged I started running for the 2 drunk ****ers that hit us, but just as I was about to reach them the EMT's and police arrived and had to subdue me.

Pictures of the wreck showed the drivers side of the car we were in totally crushed, and the front passenger seat where I was sitting looked untouched. 2 drunk Navy Service men from GLNB (nearby) had T-Boned us doing about 50 mph. No one was killed, but all 3 of my friends were in critical condition. My Guardian Angel was with me that night.

No, but lol at the bluntness

WTF dude?

I was in Christchurch, I had been there for a year and a half. In September we had a very strong earthquake. A few things got broken and we had a couple of decent aftershocks. Fast forwarding to February 22nd: I was living in the CBD and had moved into a 120 year old house. It was 12.40pm and I stood up to go get some milk from the dairy but suddenly my friend Skype'd me so I sat back down to chat to him. It turns to 12.51pm and we had a really violent earthquake, I was screaming, part of the house got damaged in my room and I seriously though I was going to die. I was like jelly and my flatmate kicked down the door so he could get to me out (basically all my furniture had fell apart from my bed which I was sitting on). I definitely felt the fight or flight experience. So I get out of the house and across the road I see that two of the identical flats had been totalled. I then see the dairy that I was going to go to and it had been completely flattened. I legitimately thought I would have been crushed inside it.

My story is really going to make people dislike me but it was a valuable lesson I learned and I haven't done it since.

About three years ago my cousin had his 21st birthday. Myself and a friend took him to New York City to get smashed and smashed we got. The night included getting kicked out of bars, buying drugs we had no intent on doing, and vomiting on sidewalks and out of taxi cabs. Last thing I remember of that night was getting off the train in Hoboken around 4:30 in the morning.

I woke up in my bed. My car was on the front lawn. I called my cousin and he said that everybody was too drunk to drive but that I insisted on driving. I live about 20-30 minutes from Hoboken. I could have killed myself, the two in my car and anybody in my path.

I'm still ashamed of myself but like I said, I learned a valuable lesson.

What the **** man, I am appalled.
Why would you buy drugs that you didn't intend to use?

^lol.


I *almost* got taken out by an ambulance while skateboarding once. I was going down a hill and heard it but thought it was going down a street behind me. Halfway across an intersection and it clipped the back part of my board, threw me back like ten feet and I slapped my head on the concrete. Hurt like a bitch but I was fine and managed to get back on my feet in a minute. I suppose if the ambulance did hit I might've had a pretty good chance but still, scared the hell outta me.

Multiple overdoses
I'm invincible though

me too.

we're obviously immortal.

I've never done or had any intention of doing coke but that didn't stop me from purchasing a dimebag worth.

shh don't tell them we have the Sorcerer's Stone

lmfao a dimebag..of coke..

Wow you two are really cool. :D

I laughed at the dimebag also. You would be driving back for another one in minutes.

Really? Thought youd be less pleb with the HP knowledge

Sorry Canadian I call it the Sorcerer's instead of the Philosophers but if you want to parry on HP knowledge you would get schooled severely. My knowledge of HP is encyclopaedic

I know it was changed to Sorcerors to please you dummies but I didnt think people actually used it

It's just what I'm used to seeing, haha. I don't use it much so eh. Plus you knew what I was talking about so **** off you squib

Yeah but my face looked similar to that of your avatar when I saw it

Do you need me to use the Cruciatus Curse for you to stfu

I wish this could stop on both sides. :dj:

Nerdz alert

squib alert

I'm glad I have no clue what that means. :clap:

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(if (/= Sansa squib)
(redefine squib)
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A miniature explosive device. I had no clue.

Riding a bicycle to the Library, 9AM on a beautiful Saturday off day, riding on the right hand side of the small street leading to my apartment only to be hit behind by an idiot with a SUV who clearly did not stop at the sign in his parking lot. He stopped and moved a little further up before he can hear my screaming, but at least that SUV stopped before it touched any part of my body.

Thankfully, all that was damaged was my bike along with scraping a knee pretty bad (it healed) while my leather jacket prevented my upper half from getting the same wreckage as my left knee. At least I got a new bike, but that day still remains in my memories as a reminder of how careless some people can get while driving (The idiot thought my lock was a part of my bike as well as he also threw that into the garbage!).

If you're gonna claim HP domination then you've gotta use better references than those. Even someone who's only seen the movies would get those. Just sayin'.

Well if you've gotta be hit by something...

I told you dude. I don't do that ****. It was like ten bucks worth.

I got hit by a double decker bus. The bus got a dent... I got a bruise on my elbow. I'm marking that one down as a win for me. :D

I've also hit/ been hit by a few cars, whilst cycling/ walking, and fallen off a rope-swing into a river. That latter wasn't a near-death experience for *me*, but it was absolutely fatal to my shoes.

I swear I have told my story about this before but I was outside playing rocks with this kid(Yes that is a game, throwing rocks/pebbles at each other). Anyways, he decided to pick up bigger heavier rocks and toss them my way. I ran out into the street to avoid getting hit by a big rock coming my way and I didn't see a car fly around the corner. I closed my eyes and blacked out so I don't know what happened exactly. I got up off the ground with no bruises or anything so I don't think I was hit by the car but as I'm walking home. I notice a cool sensation at the top right side of my head. I put my hand up there to feel what was going on and my hand was bloody when I took a look at it.

When my grandmother got home from work she proceeded to beat me for leaving the house when I wasn't supposed to. She beat me while I was still bleeding then she cleaned it up and said that she wasn't taking me to get stitches. She wanted the scar to be a reminder that I shouldn't disobey her in the future. So to this day I have a bald spot that you can see more easily when my hair starts to grow out.