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What is the closest you ever came to death

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Luthien

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For starts:

Ninja motorcycle doing 90+ racing some guy in a car down the highway. Took my hands off the handlebars to wave at him before I let it go full on ~120mph. I almost flew off the bike clawing my way back up to the bars by hugging the tank.

Same motorcycle was going about 70 on a 30mph road this POS pulls out from a left side street blocking me (too late for full brakes) another car comming in the other lane. I passed them both on the middle line nearly having a heart attack as I tried to break but could not avoid a collision with the car that pulled out in front of me so went between them.

I have a few more.
 
just now when i was walking to class, i was talking on my cell phone, didn't look while i was crossing the road and a car swerved out of the way. almost was hit.
 
That would have to be falling asleep at the wheel going 60mph and crashing into one of those big steel arrows that tells you to get over on the side of the road.
 
One time some of my friends and I were wasted.

They decided to drive across the state.

We made it about 10 miles before crashing. There was a 15 foot gap of where the car left the ground then landed.

That was my wake up call.
 
Originally posted by: effowe
That would have to be falling asleep at the wheel going 60mph and crashing into one of those big steel arrows that tells you to get over on the side of the road.
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Oh, ****** lol.
 
Bleeding ulcer that bled enough so that I had very very low blood pressure and past out. They had to pump some fluid into me to get the blood pressure back up to where I could remain concious in the hospital, but it was supposedly touch and go for a few minutes. All in all it would not have been a bad way to go as everything just sort of faded to black. No pain or stress.
 
Brand new 1992 FZR600, dumped it under tractor trailer that pulled out in front of me will I was doing 60. Layed the bike down, hit the jacks on the trailer and got drug for about 20ft.. Ended up laying between the tandum axels of the trailer. Blew out my left knee, broke my tail bone, cracked three ribs. Woke up in the hospital 5hrs. later.
 
Oh forgot another one, got a blood clot in my leg a couple years ago with a pulmonary embolism in the lung, at 22.
 
Originally posted by: xeno2060
Brand new 1992 FZR600, dumped it under tractor trailer that pulled out in front of me will I was doing 60. Layed the bike down, hit the jacks on the trailer and got drug for about 20ft.. Ended up laying between the tandum axels of the trailer. Blew out my left knee, broke my tail bone, cracked three ribs. Woke up in the hospital 5hrs. later.
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WOW, OUCHY!
 
I died once - crashed my bike into a guard rail on the highway. Lost 16bags (2 full refills) of blood in 8 hrs. I died and they had to revive me.
 
1. Came close to attempting suicide in 8th grade (held knife to throat, held it there, crazily laughed and put it back down. *reads post* god I was a retard back then)

2. Almost got side-swiped by a tractor trailer while visiting Virginia Tech. Had to break hard to slip behind and avoid a crash. Avoided it by inches.
 
Originally posted by: jdoggg12
I died once - crashed my bike into a guard rail on the highway. Lost 16bags (2 full refills) of blood in 8 hrs. I died and they had to revive me.
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Did you see a white light? Oh, and YIKES!
 
I don't remember, though I was awake and all, i have no memory for 2 weeks of that time. From waking up that morning to 2weeks later at Stanford medical, I do not recall.

 
Happily cleaning the bilge with buckets of water in the auxiliary machinery room of a submarine while at a 30 degree incline.

The reactor was emergency shutdown and the trim was off balance due to driving fast for the previous twelve hours while a couple hundred feet above test depth. As the sub slowed down from lack of propulsion due to the shutdown reactor, the heavy back end started dragging the ship down and backwards causing us to sink uncontrollably at an increasing pace. By the time the reactor was sending steam to the turbines to turn the reduction gears and the screw and move the boat forward again, we had sunk several hundred feet below test depth and dangerously close to crush depth. The ship suffered permanent damage to the hull in the form of dimples between the supporting steel I-beams.
 
While driving a cargo van down 2-lane country roads @ 60mph, I was approaching a narrow 2-lane bridge and saw a tractor trailer carrying a double-wide mobile home appear from around the blind curve on the other side of the bridge. We were destined to cross the bridge at the same time. I literally had a split second to make a life or death decision. I immediately slammed on the brakes and skidded off the road, stopping ~ 20ft from the ~15ft drop-off into the creek below.
 
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