How close have you come to death?

[Cerberus]

a few years ago, I nearly choked to death after eating a kashew nut, I had a really bad allergic reaction to it, at it\'s most extreme point, it felt like I was being strangled.

I was in the pub with a friend and he offered me one, I didn\'t know I was allergic to them.

I couldn\'t help thinking to myself as I was fighting for breath, "is this it?"

I really thought I was a gonner.

I woke up the following evening after over 18 hours sleep with a neck like an elephants leg, the skin on my cheeks & forehead had blistered off and my left eye completely closed up, it looked like someone had splashed acid in my face.

That was the closest I have ever come to death.

Hmm, can\'t say I\'d had any such moments. I\'ve been under surgery a few times and I guess there\'s always a risk with such things... but other than that, no.

[Kurt Angle]

Nothing close to death for me.

One time I was fighting with Dennis Hopper on top of a subway train and almost got my head taken off.

True Story too.

In a swimming lesson, ages and ages ago. Me and another kid were fighting over a kick board thingamagig. I ALMOST DROWNED!!

Mine is the same as Vids.  Heading up a 2-line state route to Cedar Point with 5 of my friends, one of them driving.  He went to pass a car and a semi and mid-way through the semi we pretty much realized we weren\'t gonna make it.  All I said was, this sucks.  But as you can tell we ended up missing the car and the front of the semi but by about 1 foot a piece.  Yea, and it would have been 90 on 65.

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

Got hit by a car, was dragged under it.. Luck was on my side, i managed to grab the front bumper bar so my top half didn\'t go under too. When the car stopped i got out from under it, the lady that was driving cracked the shits with me, when she was the one in the wrong. She then asked if I was ok. l told the stupid bytch to **** off. I walked home with my whole left side covered with scraps and cuts. i didn’t go to hospital or anything, It wasn\'t bad enough for that. Thank god.
If i had something broken i would\'ve accepted her nice little offer to drive me there.

Also when i was a lot younger i nearly got hit by a bus. I was with about 5 friends. We were talking while crossing the road when they all stopped. So i was looking back trying to figure out why they had stopped. Next thing i hear a bus horn going off. I turn to see where it was and it just missed me by about 3 inches from my nose. The side mirror just went over my head, so all my mates said. If was any taller, the mirror would have KO\'d me then the rest of the bus would have probably finished me off, scary sh@t.


ohh, and i nearly had cancer. Had a golf ball size lump removed from my neck. It was a gland that went mad. Infact i had 3 of them removed, but the 2 others were a lot smaller. Guess you could call that a close to death thing, cause if it was cancer, i would have been in a lot of s@#t.

[Titan]

I have two things

1) I was an infant and choked on dog food. I almost died there.

2) In middle school, I was waiting for the bus. This was the first time my mom stayed out and talked with me in a couple years. My bus came and you know those assholes that don\'t stop. Well this one ass didn\'t stop and I had to cross the street. She yelled "Chris look out!!!" If my mom wasn\'t there, I would have been hit and killed. He was going fast.

Got hit by a car, was dragged under it.. Luck was on my side, i managed to grab the front bumper bar so my top half didn\'t go under too. When the car stopped i got out from under it, the lady that was driving cracked the shits with me, when she was the one in the wrong. She then asked if I was ok. l told the stupid bytch to **** off. I walked home with my whole left side covered with scraps and cuts. i didn’t go to hospital or anything, It wasn\'t bad enough for that. Thank god.

Did the lady ever get in legal trouble?

Originally posted by Titan
I was an infant and choked on dog food. I almost died there.

Yeah, I hear dog food is cheaper than baby food.

Originally posted by §ôµÏG®ïñD
Got hit by a car, was dragged under it.. Luck was on my side, i managed to grab the front bumper bar so my top half didn\'t go under too. When the car stopped i got out from under it, the lady that was driving cracked the shits with me, when she was the one in the wrong. She then asked if I was ok. l told the stupid bytch to **** off. I walked home with my whole left side covered with scraps and cuts. i didn’t go to hospital or anything, It wasn\'t bad enough for that. Thank god.
If i had something broken i would\'ve accepted her nice little offer to drive me there..

crap!

How tall was that car? You must have been SUPER LUCKY!!:eek:

[§ôµÏG®ïñD]

Can\'t remember how tall the car was. It wasn\'t a big car. I was crossing the road, while she was slowing down. It was a crossing, but she was to busy watching the other cars (it was on a rounderbout) rather then what was in front of her. So when she was a few meters from me, and it was clear. She speed back up and hit me from the right side pushing me to the ground. I grabbed the bumper bar and held on to she stopped. She didn\'t drive all that long.  It happened pretty fast.  She didn\'t get sued or anything. I was to hurt to take any details down about her or her car. I just wanted to get home. I was about 1k from my house so I just walked home. I was 14 or 15 when it happened. They\'ve changed the section now, They have traffic lights and a cross intersection rather then a rounderbout.

WTF is a rounderbout?

[Kurt Angle]

An intersection without traffic lights, just give way to traffic coming from the right (in UK, left everywhere else), then when clear drive around it to your turning.