What was your last near death experience?

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So I went to the Poconos a few weeks ago for a friends birthday. Now, I am extremely afraid of drowning (bad experiences). For this reason I usually stay close to the steps of pools. The pool at this house had super slippery floors and the shallow end was really short. The floor of the pool sloped down after like 3 ft and then it was all deep end. And there was a rope right before the slope. Just a weird setup.

Anyway, when I was younger I could swim under water like a frog. So I thought I would see if I could still do it. Remember, the rope in the pool was right before the slope. And the slippery ass floor. So I go to back up to the rope and my foot slipped! Down the damn slope and under water I went. I wasn't close enough to the wall to grab that so I tried to grab the rope. Because it's a rope and weighs nothing, it was no help. Again, drowning is probably my number one fear. By now I'm panicking. Bad. I can't stand up because of the dumbass floor and there's nothing to hold onto. So I'm basically drowning at this point. Luckily one of my friends had just floated over near me. She grabbed me but because she was in a donut she couldn't really pull me up. Her husband is basically a fish so he swam over and they pulled me to safety.

Safe to say I'm done with pools until I take lessons because I'm traumatized. 😭😭😭

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Titanic1912 · Accepted Answer

It was when I had my tragic car accident back in June of 2019. I was driving down a gravel road going 25 miles per hour and I was turning the wheel to the right and I put my brakes on and I started skidding. When I over corrected myself I ended up turning upside down landing into a ravine. My car was totaled. I didn’t take these pictures. My dad took them and sent them to me. It took two tow trucks an hour and a half to get my car back onto the tires. I ended up in the hospital with a burned left arm from where the airbag hit me, a deep minor cut on my right arm, and the area around my right eye was badly scratched up. My glasses saved my eye because if I wasn’t wearing them, I’d be wearing an eye patch. My girlfriend was really scared when I didn’t answer her texts after I told her I was in a car accident. When I answered her video call, she was crying. She was crying so hard I couldn’t understand what she was saying. I was confined to a hospital bed and there were a bunch of machines that I was hooked to. When I had a CAT scan, I had no fractures, no internal bleeding and no concussion. I was okay! I survived my car accident and I had minor injuries. I’m still walking and I’m more careful when I’m driving.

GoodGuyBreakingBad · Accepted Answer

My last near death experience was age 10-11, well my late Mom and our friend
she had kids and me and my sister was there too, we were going to a picnic well
we went to Mingo Creek Park and of course, we were going into the creek well
I was told to use an inner tube this was an inside of an old tire this could be used
as a lifejacket to prevent me from drowning well, that didn't happen the inner tube
took me under the water and kept bringing me back up until it stopped wow I was
scared out of my life but I kept telling my Mom that I almost drowned she said no
but I want to warn all people if you are going swimming wear a lifejacket do not use
something that is not a lifejacket such as an old inner tube and another death
experience I choked on dry turkey and my grandma did the Helmloch maneuver
to stop me from choking and she saved my life but wow to these days I always
warn people and I can't swim but this is something I should learn but I'm a wuss
I'm sorry about your experience

JosyJosy · Accepted Answer

One was with my parents, I can't remember who was on the wheel, but I know that person's a 'freeze' person in dangerous situations. Had to join in on a road where we can go 90, driver was about to go on road, didn't see the trucker come at a good speed. Heavy vehicles they can't just slam the breaks, they're still gonna travel a fair bit even if they try to do so. Instead of going in reverse and trying again when the road is free... the driver froze, stood still on the road. We'd probably be dead if it wasn't for the Trucker who didn't freeze at all. Luckily there are two lanes and the trucker had the space to move onto the other lane JUST IN TIME. Zooming past us. If that trucker froze too, I probably wouldn't be writing today.

I feel safest when I drive. I don't trust my parents if I can't drive. I even trust my two crazy driver friends more, one of them drifts and still.

DarkCarousel · Accepted Answer

I was exiting the highway and there was an 18wheeler on the shoulder but partially on the exit ramp. I didn’t see it because there was a car in front of me that suddenly jerked back onto the highway. There was another 18wheeler directly behind me and I couldn’t slam my breaks on. We were nearly smashed into the parked 18wheeler at 70 mph. It was terrifying. I’m sure that we came within a few feet of impact.

blank_expression · Answer

It wasn’t that long ago-6 months. I was on a two-story roof and went off the side. Images flashed through my head on the way down including, I believed I was a cat with a tail (no-shit) and I sensed the tail turn me in the right orientation just before I hit. I was out. I only remember the initial contact. Many very strange things happened in my head during that outage. When I came to, oh shit, was I in pain. I started to try to move a little at a time. I crawled 6 feet and began to pass out again, then 10ft, then to a chair. I had some welts on me, bleeding here and there. I was working a project for myself that I had to have done before I had to return to work, so as damn hurting as I was, I worked through the pain and finished the job. That turned out to be better because the next day, other than the swelling and black and blue everywhere, I had nothing, and no major pain.

Walt832 · Answer

Working under my old car. Using emergency jack that comes with the vehicle. One i am glad i wasn't listening 🎧 music. I heard cracking noise coming from the jack. I roll out from the vehicle and slide jack stands under the vehicle without adjusting it within 3 second the jack broke and vehicle just went hard low. Then i look under i said "shiiiiiiiit my head was in that spot it would of been a hot mess blood splatter all over". Since then i put extra stands and tires under each side.

Anonymous · Answer

Last? Not sure, most memorable was in Iraq. IED hit the vehicle immediately in front of me. As the gi tick we pull up to inspect the damage and right at face level was a massive piece of shrapnel.

A second later my face not the exhaust of a military tractor trailer would of had a giant piece of steel embedded in it. Made that youthful invincibility seem a little less prevalent for a moment.

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I nearly drowned when I was about 8 but, a few years later, we got a pool inn the yard and I practically lived in it!!
A friend of mine was afraid of water so, he decided to call himself, Water, because, he figured that, if he went by that name, it'd be stupid of him to be afraid of himself!

UpAfterDawn · Answer

I was taking the train home one time and a few guys that were on the train kept staring at me and I could sense hostility. When I got off the train they followed me off and I even started running eventually and they started chasing luckily I went to the nearest convience store and the owner helped me and those guys fucked off. I don't know if that's near death but that's the closest I got to feeling like I was going to die

Leavesbound · Answer

Three years ago I came within seconds of being hit by a car. I was in a cross walk crossing the street when a vehicle came up behind me and went straight instead of turning right in a right turn lane and knocked over the cross walk signal whose button I had pressed less than a minute before. I was 3/4 of the way across the intersection when that happened and the cross walk signal pole missed me by inches. The driver claimed they thought the flashing red tail light on my bicycle was a car's tail light.

45Fstraight · Answer

Less than a year ago and it's difficult to talk about. It was a big awakening though and I feel like life is so short. I sort of miss the feeling of complacency I had before the near death experience, but I don't want to waste any more time than I already have on things that I thought were important.

Anonymous · Answer

The last time I felt like I was going to die was my last panic attack. I don't think I've ever had a near death experience, unless you count intrusive thoughts of su*cide.

MrOracle · Answer

You can learn to swim in a 3' deep pool. If you have a public pool facility, they'll often have such a pool for younger kids, or maybe they have a pool with a larger shallow end. The point being, you can completely learn to swim in a pool that you can easily stand up in. You can also learn to swim underwater in the same sized pool.

I can understand being afraid of being in the water if you don't know how to swim, but you should definitely learn to swim - it's an important safety skill.

ewok737 · Answer

This morning on the way to work on my motorcycle at 410 AM, urban expressway, no street lighting,  wrong way driver with no lights on missed me by less than a foot.

OnTheLevel · Answer

You really should learn to swim. If for no other reason, just to be able to save yourself in a situation like that.

DaveToo · Answer

I hear ya, girl! I've always been a fish near water. I grow gills when I take a shower! LOL. I've been in search and rescue scenarios when I didn't think I'd make it back to the surface.

What you experienced wasn't a real near-death experience. I've only really had two of those, where the heart stops beating and I could be declared legally dead, only to be revived.

lovedejj_xo · Answer

I fell asleep In my bf’s car waiting to leave a party In a nice area….. it was dark and a lot of car jacking has been going on. The person in a ski mask opened the door and was trying to grab things I didn’t know what was going on and turned my phone on and he started swearing and got out pretty fast. I carry so by the time everything registered I couldn’t do anything because I was very well about to put a bullet in the car tire. I hate people sometimes

natured · Answer

Oh me living in italy i risk my life daily while driving to work... our road rages here are out of the world...

EmbraceThePain · Answer

I almost crashed into a car driving through the intersection while I was going through it on a green light.

Kate200005 · Answer

I nearlly cycled under a train, 2 trains were coming from opposite direction and I only noticed one of them. I started cycling and my Mum pull my bike back and actually saved my life. I was 16 then.

Sabin_Splx · Answer

I almost got burned alive in a Volkswagen. That changed my life. I need to get over it but it was too recent.

TacosRAwesome · Answer

A trio of scooter cunts came wrong way when I was driving in a narrow road. Scared the shit out of me.

JackSmy · Answer

You ask this like most people commonly have these experiences!! THEY DON'T!! WTF are you doing that you as about the "Last" near death experience?

abhi75757 · Answer

I was very tensed due to job and i was riding cycle thinking about it and then i realised tha i was cycling between 18 wheels truck tire it was nearest deth experience i just escaped because it was too much traffic

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