| User | Comment |
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Frostbrand  | | posted 8-Jul-2000 10:48pm |
I almost drowned once. |
bill   |
She turned and looked at me, then smiled. I felt like I was going to die.  |
| daver |
I've felt it was a distinct possibility several times; I've never believed I was about to die. |
| msgman |
I woke suddenly in the middle of a summer night, dripping with sweat. I was lying on my back, and I felt as though a heavy weight was pressing down on me, stopping me from breathing. My heart started pounding, and it seemed as though the weight was getting heavier, constricting me, sucking the life out of me. I struggled to speak, clawing my way towards consciousness, fearing that if I didn't pull myself awake I would never wake again. I remember finally forcing out a muffled scream. And the heavy weight went "maiow" and adjusted itself to curl round my legs instead of my chest.  |
| Jemmy |
I always think I'm going to die. |
| mandy |
I have had some major illnesses and there were times I thought I might die.There have been many times that I have wished for death. Last night was one of them. |
| Shareen |
I fell in a pool a long time ago when i couldn't swim and thought I was dying. |
SueBee  |
I came pretty close to drowning once. As I was being pulled deeper under the water by the current, time seemed to slow down. I was actually at peace with the thought of dying, but as I pictured my body being pulled out of the water downstream my head popped above the surface, just when I couldn't have held my breath another moment. Luckily someone grabbed me and hauled me to shore at that point. |
| cody |
Yes, And it sucked a big floppy one, too! Hehe. |
| romkey | | (reply to mandy) posted 9-Jul-2000 10:56pm |
I'm glad you're still with us! |
| mandy | | (reply to romkey) posted 9-Jul-2000 11:22pm |
Thank you, love.
Beware of Scottish meat pies.
*falls over* |
| romkey | | (reply to mandy) posted 9-Jul-2000 11:30pm |
oy! |
| TwistedIvory | | posted 10-Jul-2000 12:24am |
Yes, but not really. Sometimes I wish I would! |
Wicksy   | | (reply to mandy) posted 10-Jul-2000 9:05am |
What happened last night then?
If you don't mind me asking!? |
| joachim | | posted 10-Jul-2000 9:47am |
I guess I've had some close calls motorcycling but I've never actually believed my death was near. I expect death will come when I least expect it, and from behind. |
| romkey | | (reply to joachim) posted 10-Jul-2000 10:04am |
Death is a back-door man? |
| tagyouritt | | posted 10-Jul-2000 12:22pm |
I almost drowned when I was 2. |
| sunshine | | posted 10-Jul-2000 1:31pm |
I have never thought about it since everyone is going to die at some point. Instead think about life and what you can do to enjoy it. |
| mandy | | (reply to Wicksy) posted 10-Jul-2000 6:34pm |
Food poisoning!!!!!!!!! |
| GOLDFISH | | posted 10-Jul-2000 11:04pm |
I was 3 years old and I wanted my mom to put on my floaties so i could go in the pool. but she didn't. she kept talkin and i jump in and sank. if it wasn't for my big sister i would be dead. That is why my name is goldfish. |
| Zang | | posted 11-Jul-2000 4:35am |
Oh, a couple of times. |
| dsysko | | posted 11-Jul-2000 1:14pm |
"She turned me into a newt! Got better." - Monty Python, Holy Grail.
I fell off a cliff once, a pretty big one and got hurt. On the way down I figured it was all over. I feel that God intervened, putting me through a tree near the bottom and into a large pile of snow.
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| SueBee | | (reply to romkey) posted 13-Jul-2000 12:53pm |
LOL |
| liquidliqhtninq | | posted 13-Jul-2000 8:51pm |
Yeah...more than once...I thought we all felt that way at one point... |
| autumnlight | | posted 15-Jul-2000 1:55pm |
Car crash, nasty |
| TwistedIvory |
What did you crash into? BTW: I like your s/n! |
| Maarten | | posted 16-Jul-2000 4:33pm |
I almost drowned once at the age of 11. I fell in this small river with a strong current. My brother held me with one hand, but instead of pulling me out the jerk was laughing his ass off. I really was afraid that he would let loose, but finally he pulled me out. |
| regis | | posted 19-Jul-2000 2:09am |
several times, ranging from accidents/near-accidents to sitting in a surgery prep room waiting to be put to sleep and wondering, somewhat detatched-ly, if i would wake up. |
| Enheduanna | | (reply to romkey) posted 20-Jul-2000 9:03pm |
More of a come-from-behind victory... |
| boots43 | | posted 23-Jul-2000 11:11am |
but wished i had |
| muilas | | posted 27-Jul-2000 4:34pm |
one night i had this weird inner feeling that i would get run over by a truck. i wrote a letter in my journal and left it open in my room just in case, and it had all the #s of people id want to know if i died. i was scared to cross the street. it was so stange!! |
| Pollerbear | | posted 29-Jul-2000 5:11pm |
Yes...twice...and I didn't die. Woo-hoo!!!! |
| Stoneher | | posted 1-Aug-2000 12:35pm |
one time i drank way tooo much and took some assorted pills and i thought i was going to die. |
| SuperAngel |
I was in a very bad car accident. I can't remember it at all... I was knocked unconscious for 8 days, broke my neck, and suffered from traumatic brain injury. Although, I can't remember the actual event, I feel the tear of my car flipping over, and spinning. I had never realized how precious life is until my encounter with death. |
| Shandora |
I take that chance ever time I close my eyes and fall asleep. |
| MaryVieira |
I was on a roller-coaster ride and I didn't get the lap brace pulled down good. When we went down, my body went up. I still don't know how I stayed in the coaster. |
| North79 | | posted 13-Sep-2000 4:13pm |
Only last weekend at the DV8 festival, when a fire extinguisher decided to explode 20 feet away from me. No harm done, but I thought that was the end! |
| harrisonford | | posted 15-Oct-2000 9:04pm |
yes but I did really die, someone I guess did not what me to |
| iamloser | | posted 30-Oct-2000 11:24am |
It was actually attacks of paranoia but the feeling was real every time. Scary! |
| iamloser | | (reply to muilas) posted 30-Oct-2000 11:31am |
I've had the feeling like i knew i was going to die or even that i knew something else was going to happen, and the way you stop it from happening muilas is what you did, you write it down or you tell some one. (writing it down is best.) Then it doesn't happen. (at least for me.) When I DONT write it down or if i just forget .. then it WILL happen and I will remember in a flash the premonition i had. I think some people call this phenomenon de ja vu. (spelling?) This stuff freaked me out so bad, for a while i used to purposely forget my dreams. If I didn't, things i dreamt about would keep happening. |
| Hotbabe | | posted 31-Oct-2000 5:57pm |
I very recently thought that it was 'the end' for me. |
| hitler | | (reply to Hotbabe) posted 1-Nov-2000 4:45am |
why, what happened?
Are you okay now? |
| Hotbabe | | (reply to hitler) posted 1-Nov-2000 2:23pm |
Well ........ I was very upset last week and really felt like jumping in front of a train or taking a load of tablets and at the time I was serious about doing something like that, but obviously I didn't do it! I'm fine now, thanks. |
| mandy | | (reply to Hotbabe) posted 1-Nov-2000 3:54pm |
I am so glad you didn't (((HUG)))) You're a lovely girl! |
| Hotbabe | | (reply to mandy) posted 1-Nov-2000 4:25pm |
I am as well, which surprises me! |
| comtesse | | posted 2-Nov-2000 12:50am |
hell yeah...3 times self-inflicted, one time bad trip...i must have some greater purpose in life to still be here and i'm thankful for it everyday!!!!!! :o) |
| hitler | | (reply to Hotbabe) posted 2-Nov-2000 4:35am |
Glad to hear it. Nothing is ever worth dying for |
| nasale | | posted 1-Dec-2000 10:05pm |
I was very sick at one point and I alternated between thinking I was going to die and wishing I would die. |
| anonymous | | posted 15-Jan-2001 10:32am |
no, not yet, but being suicidal draws that thought closer and closer everyday |
| they | | posted 15-Jan-2001 11:02am |
When I was 38 weeks pregnant, I started bleeding profusely.. they call it placental abruption. The placenta begins detaching from the uterine wall which affects the baby's heart and breathing. I didn't worry about much of anything until I was rushed in for an emergency C-section. Just as I was passing out from the anesthetic, I realized that I might not make it. I thought.. "Would I be willing to die in order for this baby to survive?" and I passed out... Now I know I would throw myself in front of a train or worse for her. |
| SueBee | | (reply to they) posted 19-Jan-2001 4:05pm |
How is your little cutie doing these days? Any recent pics available online? (I mean Mary, not magbast. ) |
| they | | (reply to SueBee) posted 19-Jan-2001 9:12pm |
She's walking and talking  . Her first birthday was on December 6th. I don't have any really recent pics but I'll have to come up with some. Thanks for asking. |
| provert | | posted 22-Jan-2001 6:58am |
more than once |
| Wicksy | | posted 22-Jan-2001 8:58am |
I feel absolutely terrible at the moment. I had flu 2 weeks ago and now I have something else. I have sharp muscle pains (inc. my feet this morning), sore throat, pounding headache and feel all shivery. I was in bed last night and was under this massive quilt with the heating fully on and I was cold. What is wrong with me? Can someone help?  |
| Maarten | | (reply to Wicksy) posted 22-Jan-2001 9:15am |
I could call your doctor. |
| Wicksy | | (reply to Maarten) posted 22-Jan-2001 9:56am |
Thanks but I know what he'll say!!
Get some rest and take a few days of work
I can't do either because: 1- I can't sleep and 2- I have to go to work |
| Jemmy | | (reply to Wicksy) posted 22-Jan-2001 4:22pm |
Maybe you should take some tylenol. Don't take more than 12 in a day though, apparently that's bad for you.
I've got the sore throat thing too. (Strep throat) and I had a headache today, but luckily there was no school. Maybe you just have the flu.
I hope you feel better soon! |
| wolfdog | | posted 23-Jan-2001 12:53am |
Almost in the Gulf War. |
| Wicksy | | (reply to Jemmy) posted 23-Jan-2001 4:29am |
The strange thing is I had the flu 2 weeks ago. You can't get again that quickly, can you? |
| Maarten | | (reply to Wicksy) posted 23-Jan-2001 9:10am |
Everything is possible in the rotten English climate! |
| Jemmy | | (reply to Wicksy) posted 23-Jan-2001 2:48pm |
I have. Usually it is not a different flu though, just a relapse of the same one. The virus was still in your body, and it is making you sick a second time. I had the flu during New Year's, and now I've got strep throat, so it is probably possible. |
| Wicksy | | (reply to Jemmy) posted 23-Jan-2001 3:40pm |
You're right. It's a relapse of the original one! Thanks for the card!! |
| Jemmy | | (reply to Wicksy) posted 23-Jan-2001 7:27pm |
Your welcome! |
| mandy | | (reply to Jemmy) posted 23-Jan-2001 11:18pm |
Thanx for mine too, Jemmy sweetie
(((hugs)))
***kisses*** |
| Jemmy | | (reply to mandy) posted 24-Jan-2001 3:36pm |
Your welcome! |
| flipkick | | posted 25-Jan-2001 8:25pm |
Once when I was five I slid down my banister and almost flipped over the edge. It was quite scary. |
| anonymous | | posted 29-Jan-2001 10:34pm |
I got stuck on a coral reef 20 feet down while snorkeling in mexico. It really sucked thinking of the end as i thrashed around in pain luckily i blacked out then woke up fine on shore. |
| bifft | | posted 29-Jan-2001 10:39pm |
Yesterday i was eating my Trix and i was almost done then i read the expiration on the milk. I have tasted death. MAN!! I live on the edge. |
| ASexyBabe | | (reply to Wicksy) posted 1-Feb-2001 2:20pm |
Hope you feel better. |
| confetti | | posted 1-Feb-2001 11:16pm |
Generally each and every time I have the flu. I have a pretty light view of death, which I suppose is funny for a half-orphaned kid. The thing is, I don't see death as any thing other than another door opening to another phase of my existence. |
| Wicksy | | (reply to ASexyBabe) posted 2-Feb-2001 4:14am |
100% again now thanks |
| juliw | | posted 11-Feb-2001 4:47pm |
Yeah, the time I thought was drowning. I went to a local swim club, and forgot to put my feet down after sliding down the sliding board. The weather was only about to my chest, but I could just see all this brown water around me, and I panicked. My aunt helped me up right away, but I was too scared to go down the sliding board for a while. |
| juliw | | posted 11-Feb-2001 5:06pm |
Oh, that's awful that you were so badly injured. Glad you are OK now, but that to be terrifying |
| spidertea |
When I overdosed. |
| Rycon_Payne | | posted 10-Mar-2001 2:50am |
The gun didn't go off...thank God...
Once you try it, you don't have the guts to try again. It was the hardest times of my life, I was so weak then...
Be Well, and Blessed Be... |
| anonymous |
I was lucky: my guns were locked up and I didn't know where the key was. I'm feeling better now, and I hope you are too. |
| heyzeus1 | | posted 11-Mar-2001 12:31am |
sometimes drugs suck... |
| teenage_misfit | | posted 22-Mar-2001 3:59pm |
Yea when i rode a roller coaster! |
| Hotbabe | | posted 13-Apr-2001 1:39pm |
Indeed. I think about suicide several times a day and attempt it several times a week. My wrists bleed often and I tend to get a huge shock when I wake up after taking loads of pills.
I was in an incident on a plane recently and was seconds away from death, if only ........... |
| Katrina |
I had an accident 18 years ago that left me with head, neck, and chest burns -- along with burns to my lungs(all chemical). I was hooked up to a ventilator, had a chest tube,IV tubing coming out of me everywhere and a tube in my nose to feed me. It's eerie how I could hear all the scuttle and talk around me but couldn't respond to anything. For a bit, I thought I WOULD die. However, that feeling passed quickly and the toughest part was not being able to respond to all the people around my who thought I was gonna die. |
| Cleo | | posted 19-May-2001 2:24am |
I drowned once when I was 8 yrs old.My parents were in the car arguing & stopped when they saw a crowd gathering on the beach.An older dove in to save me.When I came,to all I could remember was how embarrassed I was.Stopped my parents from arguing that's for sure!Another time it was because of a suicide attempt.(twice) Both times I had been revived in the hospital.But,the last time they were mad at me & sent me to a phyco ward.I had to do alot of creative lying to get myself out of that place.Boy was I scared!! I never did that one again!! |
| Brian | | posted 29-May-2001 2:22pm |
Truly, I did die, but I got better.
During a neardeath experience, Celestial Peace was shown to me. There is absolutely no sensation on Earth like it. None! I never understood the word Celestial prior to the experience. I was also shown the cause and surroundings (but not the exact place) of my death, but not the time.
As bizarre as this seems, it is true. And I have no way to prove it to you. |
| mrsbbear | | posted 1-Jun-2001 10:33pm |
Was knocked silly hitting the water wrong from the diving board as a child, and sank to the bottom. Made it back up choking on water, and too weak to swim, and no one knew I was in trouble. My friends were a few feet away, the lifeguard didn't notice. I couldn't call out, and started to sink again. Somehow I made it, and no one ever knew anything was wrong. Worked out in the end. |
| SueBee | | (reply to Brian) posted 3-Jun-2001 5:07pm |
I am so envious that you got to experience that! Not that I want to go through the recovery and other unpleasantness that would likely go along with it, and I would never try to bring it about myself. But I've read many books about NDEs and I find it all very fascinating. Did it change your life? |
| pax42 | | posted 4-Jun-2001 11:32am |
lol, thats a stupid answer |
| Brian | | (reply to SueBee) posted 5-Jun-2001 11:58am |
Yes, it did change my life at first. I got lot more empathetic with other humans and less concerned about worldly things. But I also got distracted by exactly how wonderful Celestial Peace was.
Not that I was gonna run out and kill myself, but I started looking forward to it. So much so that I loss a bit of contact with "reality". That is that I still had/have many years in front of me before I will experience it again...as a reward and forever. And I realized I wasn't using my "years" correctly.
In some ways, it is now a distant memory (22 years ago). Definitely, I am more religious than I used to be and not afraid of death. Now-a-days I am just trying to be a good person. (That still needs some work.)
I haven't mentioned the experience to anyone in years, because
1) it sounds mystical, and most people who tell such tales get labeled as kooks, and
2) listeners tend to discredit the experience with a bunch of scientific explanations for what "really happened".
I said in the beginning I can't prove it. But I did experience it.
It has always been a comfort to know that there is "Peace" after life. And that can be more attractive than "Life" after death.
I read a quote somewhere that went something like:
"Life is good. Death is peaceful. It is the transition that is troublesome."
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| SueBee | | (reply to Brian) posted 6-Jun-2001 11:03pm |
Well, I don't think you're a kook, and I totally believe that what you experienced was very real, however mystical it may seem. I have some questions for you, if you don't mind my asking:
Did you come away from it feeling like any religion is "okay", as long as it helps you to be closer to God?
Do you have a strong feeling that suicide is wrong, even though you looked forward to being back there again?
Do you feel like you didn't die because you still have things you're supposed to do in this lifetime?
Do you believe in reincarnation?
Have you read other people's account of their NDEs and/or talked to others who have experienced it? |
| red_30_uk |
When i took speed it was awful, never again |
| Brian | | (reply to SueBee) posted 7-Jun-2001 10:25am |
Wow! Great questions. I will try as best I can to share my feelings. I have no "answers", only what "feels right" to me, which may be contrary to the norm.
1st question: I did not immediately get closer to God. I just no longer feared death. As a matter of fact, despite the experience, I spent almost two decades pretending to be an atheist. I did not associate the two because I had serious difficulties with religions and religious writings of varying belief systems. Dying might be peaceful, but it did not at that time (for me) imply a God. Just because I had the experience didn't keep me from being stupid.
2nd question: I do feel suicide is wrong, but the "why's" are complicated. One of my fears is that suicide would deny me the Celestial Peace. I would rather "suffer" life knowing that the reward will compensate for all the aggravation now experienced. However, I am fortunate, I have never had a life experience so intense that I no longer wished to live. If I were to lose one of my children or wife, that might do it for me. I can not in any fashion condemn any one who chooses "voluntary death".
3rd questions: Most definitely. I didn't die, because God has a plan for me, albeit well hidden!
4th question: Whew! Since I now believe in resurrection, it would be foolish for me not to consider reincarnation. However, it just does "ring true" for me. Only my feeling without an support for it.
5th question: Yes, I have read and seen films/shows/videos about NDE. I have never talked to anyone who also experienced it. Mainly because I was pooh-poohed by people I did share it with at the time. I just shut up. I only start to talk about it now because I have "resolved" my secular and religious studies in to a "package" I can live and die with. Now I want to share because it was such a beautiful feeling, I would like all humankind to have it too.
Sorry to be so long winded. Since the event I have gone through many changes as I tried to balance my "atheism" with my experience. After two decades, I finally concluded for me: God exists, has a plan for me, and showed me His reward for living out His plan.
I understand that this may not be the conclusion reached by others, but it is right for me. Thank you for asking and listening. |
| SueBee | | (reply to Brian) posted 7-Jun-2001 6:56pm |
Thanks for sharing! I think that we all need to come to our own conclusions about God and how we choose to live our lives, so don't think that I was expecting your feelings to somehow jive with anyone else I've heard talk about these things. I was just curious to hear yet another voice on the subject. I'm short on time. Gotta run... |
| Brian | | (reply to SueBee) posted 8-Jun-2001 9:51am |
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| SueBee | | (reply to Brian) posted 8-Jun-2001 9:59pm |
Sorry about that. I suddenly had to get off the computer. Now that I'm not in a rush... I'm glad I finally figured out that I don't need religion in order to believe in God. It took me a long time to come to that conclusion. I'm thankful for books that helped me by putting the ideas I'd already had into words that made sense. Several of those books were about near death experiences. Thankfully, I've never been so low as to seriously contemplate suicide either. I've read that many people after a near death experience have a very strong feeling that suicide is not the way to go, even though they feel anxious to get back to that place they glimpsed. Again, thanks for sharing! |
| Brian | | (reply to SueBee) posted 11-Jun-2001 8:29am |
It's it weird? What is astounding to me is the similarity of the experience between people.
Someone once tried to explain it away to me as endorphins. I didn't buy it. It did not come from within me, it came from "without". |
| SueBee | | (reply to Brian) posted 11-Jun-2001 11:52pm |
I'm waiting for the day when someone who's tried to explain it away as something non-spiritual actually has a near death experience and comes out and admits that he's changed his mind about it! |
| Brian | | (reply to SueBee) posted 12-Jun-2001 7:27am |
I hope you never have a near death experience due to accident or trauma. But I would hope that God would touch you briefly to let you feel Celestial Peace before the end of your life. Once experienced, never forgotten. |
| SueBee | | (reply to Brian) posted 12-Jun-2001 11:37pm |
Thank you! That's a nice thought. |
| Hotbabe | | posted 19-Jun-2001 7:34pm |
The other day. |
| Wicksy | | (reply to Hotbabe) posted 20-Jun-2001 4:11am |
C'mon, what happened? |
| Hotbabe | | (reply to Wicksy) posted 21-Jun-2001 10:15pm |
There's no point in sharing the details with you, but it was quite amusing. |
| Wicksy | | (reply to Hotbabe) posted 24-Jun-2001 11:58am |
How come it was amusing? Thinking you were about to die is hardly the most comical of feelings! |
