Have You Faced Death?

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Has anyone of you ever come close to dying? Or died and for some reason returned? ( Near Death Experience )

I have faced death / came close to dying 5 times in my life. I don't feel like talking about it but I guess this can be a good start. Anybody else?
 
i was knocked unconscious underwater after attempting a backflip off a diving board, i guess that counts
 
i was almost killed snowmobiling when i was eight. a hole opened up underneath me in the snow. the hole led to an underground river that was probably 30 feet deep and who knows where it came out, plus the water was freezing cold. it was up at mt baker in washington.
 
Yea when I was five.......first learned I was allergic to penicillin......Went into shock and my airways about closed up.....Luckily enough my mom jammed benadryl down my throat......Doctors say if I ever take it again I won't make it to the hospital alive.......
 
i almost died when i was little....was deprived of oxygen for awhile.


guess that explains my SAT scores...
 
Warning: Long Reply

When I was 16 (9 years ago), I was riding a jeepney (public transportation from the Philippines) coming from the bank. I got in the jeepney casually because I don't look like a guy who would have a lot of cash with me. Unfortunately I have 25K pesos on me that time which will be the budget for the month. I was the eldest child and both my parents were CA then and they send us money and all that.

Anyways, the jeepney was moving and once it was under the Morayta underpass, this guy pulls up a balisong (makeshift knife). My adrenaline spiked and being a varsity player in judo for UST I immediately went for his wrist. He was shocked about my reaction and he didn't fight me off. His accomplice, sitting across him didn't do anything either so I just held on to his wrist for 5 seconds (it seemed like it was forever...) I scanned the road and I jumped off the moving vehicle. There was minimal traffic so lets just say I was lucky...

I guess I had presence of mind because during those 5 seconds that I held on to his wrist, I was contemplating as to how I can jump off the vehicle without getting run over or with minimal injuries.

Then I jumped... I don't know how fast the jeepney was but it is never smart to jump of a moving vehicle... I figured that the best way to have minimal injuries was to use my forarms to break my fall. I jumped, locked my neck as if I was looking at the sky so that when my head bounced, my face wouldn't hit the pavement. My forarms did break my fall but my head did bounce and instead of my face hitting the pavement, my chin did. I didn't feel a thing because of the adrenaline... but I got a one inch cut under my chin. From what the docter told me, I could probably fit half the diameter of a quarter in it...

Lets just say I was lucky I survived the fall. I Got an FX (public cab), got off at UST hospital and had it stiched. I think it took 6 stitches, called my siblings and told them what happened.

The funny thing is (if there is one), I was laughing during the time that I was being stitched because I realized my stupidity/presence of mind. The doctor had to tell me to hold still so he can have a good stitch... I got home, adrenaline subsided and I slept for 14 hours...

Oh well, I guess my goatee will never be a full...:headbang2
 
I was born dead. My mother also died while in labor with me. They managed to revive us both. I had to stay in an incubator for like two weeks or something.
 
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