How close have you been to death?

[rebgirl420]

Well, I had cancer. And it was stage 3, so I think thats a good one.

[fasterspider]

I have been dead a few times. Heroin over doses and a car crash that they said I was dead until they pulled my body from the car and I woke up and said; "I will get out of this wreck myself copper" But I could not move because my skull was fractured, my pelvis was broken in two places from the seat belt, my rib cage was caved in from the steering wheel and I had a massive concussion. I remember none of it until I woke up in agony in the hospitol.

[Chong Version 2.0]

I got in a fight with a bouncer and broke his leg. He pulled a gun out and my friend stood on his hand, preventing him from using it. I was also mugged once and the guy stabbed me above my kidney.

[maryjaNe_]

Well closest i've been is smoking way 2 much, and having a panic attack/bad trip to the point i "thought" i was gonna die hehe.

Apart from that moment, i tried teaching my sister how to swim when i was only 9 took her in the middle and just sunk trying to hold her. Lucky parents saw and pulled my out after i screamed for air.

[SantaClawz]

Very close. Appendicitis in my case, too, Santa Clawz. It was diagnosed correctly, but it had ruptured badly by the time they opened me up, and peritonitis set in afterwards even with appropriate surgery and antibiotic treatment. I had to have a subsequent huge surgical cleanout of my abdomen. With the peritonitis, I was put into a medically induced coma for five days, was in the ICU for nearly three weeks, had fever of 105, was septic, and had begun to show early signs of kidney and liver failure.

It was a miracle I survived. I had to. I had a husband and three-year-old child who needed me. Had I not been only 27 and fairly strong to begin with, I probably wouldn't have.

I was younger then that, and I recovered very quickly. They took me out of ICU quickly, mainly because I was feeling no pain. Which is probally because the pain I had before was so intense and crippling. I remember I had to literally throw myself off my couch and crawl to the bathroom. I was in the hospital for around a month and a half. Now I have horribly bad acid reflux, oh well, least im still here.

[Kai as a kite]

Wow, what a bunch of gnarly experiences. One time when I was younger, I ran my bike into someone's RV, and immediately returned home, where I thought my dad would beat my ass to death. So that was a pretty close call.

[psychocat]

Too close ,too often
Being an adrenaline junkie can easily get you killed, I've had so many close shaves.
Closest was probably when a piece of sheet steel almost severed my right hand, I was squirting blood allover the place, (it looked sort of pretty) lost so much it was touch and go for a while.
My gf gives me grief if I ride "crazy" but she isn't always on the back so who knows where the next near miss with a truck or bus will happen but I can't help myself. I have a very heavy right wrist (thats the side with the throttle) :thumbsup:

I know that most of my mates think I have a deathwish but that isn't the case , I just love feeling ALIVE !!!

[psychocat]

spinal meningitus when i was two.....you know..like the ween song..lol.

That just reminded me that I was 2 my first time, of all things it couldv'e been caused by it was a cat scratch that nearly killed me. I have no recolection of this but I remember my mother telling me years ago that I developed "Cat Scratch Fever ".

Cat-Scratch Disease -- familydoctor.org

Psychocat was nearly done in by one ,,,

[40oz]

I was never supposed to live longer than a week or so when i was born. The doctors would later call me a miracle baby.

[the image reaper]

near death ? ... which time ? ...