Have you ever had a near-death experience? ( Archived) (41)

Tinawan: Mine wasn't near death but i should say I CHEATED DEATH, during the COVID outbreak in September/October 2021 had contracted Covid and was admitted to a small health centre but passed out when i ran out of Oxygen, i woke up miraculously and was rushed to a major hospital where i was hooked on oxygen for almost 2weeks. Im better but i am very forgetful, i can hardly recall passwords, PINS and even items. Its frustrating at times.

galrads: Onw
I drank all the white wine stored in the priest's sacristy behind the altar in St. Andrew catholic church when I was in Elementary school.

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I went to vigorously pull off a clip-on tie on a best friend in elementary school. It turned out to be a regular tie and he almost chocked to death before we could cut the tie off from around his kneck.

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I accidentally broke the natural gas supply line feeding my lab bench in a high school chemistry class. Someone ran out quick enough to tell an approaching priest to extiguish his pipe.

Iyyov: Yeah. When I was a kid, I was in church with mom and my brother and sister. I looked up at her, due to the preacher's discussion, and asked, "Why aren't we called Jews anymore?" I thought my mother was kill me right then and there. She turned red-faced and replied, "They're the ones that killed ******" (The church's man-deity).

Oy! I never did that again! (She said the same thing when I became Jewish, lol!)

I got appendicitis in High School. When I came out of the surgery and the doctor was talking to me, he told me I wouldn't have lived through the night. I was having hallucinations, my fever was so bad. I knew something was bad wrong and had to do something about it. I called my mother. She didn't want to take me to the hospital, so I used profanity in front of here. Next thing I knew, I was in the hospital. So, I guess I saved my own life by using a little profanity in front of my mother. I never liked having to do that, but being deleterious from fever didn't seem to have the needed effect on her. I don't even remember what word I used, but it worked.

Decent_Love: Probably because boys like to play with danger.
I am fond of playing with electricity since childhood.

Condor009: The above was in response to Track's post.
My last one was being blown out and into the sky by a land mine one second after I had changed positions on out troop transport. Last thought I had was "I'm going to outer space!" Was woken up about ten minutes later in the mud where I had landed, some 15-20 feet from transport. Seven dead, 3 others wounded. Truck had hit a landmine on a curve going about 40 mph. on way to rescue a family compound under attack by Mugabe's guerrillas. Another group got to them for rescue . Adam later I heard that the Selous Scouts and SAS troopers caught then and wiped the 25-30 ters out. I would have much preferred to go into space on a rocket, bound for Mars That was close; was laid up for a week or so. This was third time; once in Tchad; once in Chile during coup against Allende in "73.