What's the closest you've been to dying?

Twelve years ago today I was raped by the man who murdered my mother. At one point during the rape he choked me until I went unconcious. If he hadn't let up after I passed out, I would have died. It's almost frightening to look back now on that moment alone, when I couldn't breath and I was clawing at his face, throwing mud into his eyes, and then pretending to have passed out before I finally did, to think that I may have very well not have woken up from that. /venting

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Anyway, my senior year in highschool I fell off the catwalk ladder feet first in the tiny room that the heater for our auditorium was in. When I realized what had happened (one moment I was at the top, reaching for the bar to pull myself up, then there was wind, a sense of weightlessness, and then I was sitting on the floor 16 feet down), I was leaning against a pipe that was jutting out of the floor. If I hadn't fallen feet first I could have cracked either my head or my spine on that pipe, or hit one of the many other pipes on the way down. I ended up with water in my knee, and I have little to no sensation on a patch of skin on the inside of my right calf now.

Water in the knee = fucking painful.

Multiple asthma attacks when I was a child. Not being able to breathe sucks. Went to the emergency room twice.

Multiple asthma attacks when I was a child. Not being able to breathe sucks. Went to the emergency room twice.

Actually, something similar happened to me. I had a really bad cough in the form of "croupe". Not sure if anyone has heard of it, but it caused me to passout and during this time my brain was deprived of oxygen and I had to remain hospitalized for a couple of days.

I know what you're talking about. I had croupe once.. that's one of the times I had to go to the emergency room. I'm so glad you're able to grow out of serious asthma attacks. I probably don't have the best endurance but at least I can play basketball/run without feeling like I'm going to die.

Yeah I had some sort of 'youthful asthsma' when I was a kid, and didn't even grow out of it until I got into my teens ...they used to call it 'athletic endorsed asthma' which I always thought was a nice way of calling people fat.

i had pretty bad asthma when i was very young, from 3-8 i couldnt sleep without a respirator machine or whatever the hell it's called, i'm so glad i grew out of it when i did seeing as i got picked on alot in school for breathing like ive just ran a marathon everytime i walked up a set of stairs.

I rolled my 4wheeler. It landed on top of me, broke all my ribs, clavical, punctured both my lungs. That was scary as shit spent a week in ICU. That was 11 months months ago.

2 weeks ago I was airing up a 2-piece wheel and I caught the tube between the the wheel. It blew up hitting my arm, breaking my arm, and it hit my head. If I wouldn't of moved it woulda hit my temple but it hit my eye socket lol.... 9 times outa 10 a person woulda been killed doing that.

I was in a quad accident, not as bad as GT but, pretty close. I fractured 2 ribs, seperated my sternum, I have a concussion and mild amnesia.

After a surgery, I had complications and ended up with a fever of about 107 or so before the nurses noticed. Had emergency surgery, ended up fine.

Other near collisions like almost car crashes. Weirdest one was when I was younger and I ended up on the railroad tracks at a station, I think I dropped money or something. A train was coming at me that I didn't notice and a homeless person pulled me under the concrete walking area.

My appendix burst when I was 16.
I fell asleep and my car veered into oncoming traffic when I was 21.
I got shot at when I was on a foot patrol in Ramadi at age 22.
Age 24 I was hit by two separate roadside bombs in a month.

I am 25 now and expect many more incidents in my future.

ouch and i felt sorry for jess, i feel even worse for you haha D:

I've been bitten by countless venomous snakes & spiders i have many dangerous pets and sometimes im to affectionate too my babies D: , drowned twice and been unconcious for a while both times, fallen off a cliff ( i was walking near the edge when the ground underneath my feet gave way and i slipped).