Near misses with death - how close a shave have you had with death and what happened?
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Driving a delivery van down a highway off ramp a little too fast- it almost tipped over, but just managed to prevent it from tipping. Scared me to death and I drive now a lot safer since then.
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While visiting my in-laws, there was an earthquake which shook us up a bit. My youngest was sleeping in a porta-crib, and for some reason I moved the crib over a few feet after the quake. We went back to bed, but a few hours later a much stronger quake with a closer epicenter hit, and a TV fell from a cabinet right where the crib originally was.
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Went out onto a semi-dry resivoir (God knows why) and I got stuck in the mud. Acted like quicksand up to my armpits but pulled myself out. Also an ax fell and almost cut my hand off. Just scratched it.
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6 bullets in the chest, Not found for 20 minutes and Lost 1/2 my blood.
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I had a near death experience on the operating table. Other than that it would be difficult to say how close because I like extreme sports and have had a few close shaves with danger.
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Swam out to a boat that broke loose from its ropes and was standing up in the middle of it. Next thing my friend and I know, We are both laying across the seats and both have massave head aches. The first thing he did was look at me really pissed off and ask "Why did you just punch me, you jerk!?" We figured out later that we lightning must have hit nearby and we got a small jolt from it. We both jumped out of the boat and swam back to shore. Doing a good dead was not worth dieing over.
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well i have had several, i dived head first into an iron chair when i was 5..don not know y fell of of the outside top of slide at park when 3 ran out in front of a van on bike....accident so a ot, but i am i like danger so that explains it
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I had a heart attack when I was 32 (random blood clot). My heart stopped for about 8-10 minutes before they got it started again. So, by the old definition (no heartbeat) I was dead. By the more accurate modern definition (cessation of brain activity) I wasn't, but pretty close. I guess you could call that a close shave. As to whether I had any sort of mystical experience, the answer is that, if I did, I don't remember it. Although I did wake up with a firm conviction that the designated hitter rule in baseball is an abomination, and that Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson weren't as plugged in to ultimate truth to quite the degree they thought they were.
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