re: So whats the closest you have come to death ??

Camp Sequoyah boy scout camp back when I was 14 or 15. I was participated in the older boys program: mountain biking, swimming, navigation, and rappelling.

We practiced rappelling for a couple of days and the third day they had us tie our own knots to the harness. I apparently tied mine wrong and nobody bothered to check. I stepped off the top of the tower onto the 2x4 and leaned back. Suddenly my line begins coming out of my harness. I scrambled to reach back onto the tower. Lucky for me the tower officer was able to grab me back the back of my harness and pull me up. I definitely would not have survived a 100ft fall to the ground.

I never rappelled again until Marine Corps boot camp.

Today. Later, it'll be tomorrow.

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ICU close to a month after appendix ruptured at only 5 years old. Fever got way up there many times. Asked my parents who was singing those sweet songs to me but they heard nothing. Saw the white light tunnel and heard “you can’t come yet, you still have work to do.” It felt like the best sleep I have ever had in my life. Looking forward to going back one day.

No joke.

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Damn, dude.

I was in eighth grade when I got appendicitis. My pediatrician misdiagnosed me with the stomach flu, so I deteriorated over the next several days. By the time my parents took me to the ER, the surgeons said I would have died from peritonitis had they waited any longer.

To make matters worse, the EJGH surgeons screwed up, and I had to go back in for a second surgery to clear up the infection. Watched Mardi Gras on TV that year (1983) from my parents' bed.

Missed a ton of school but finished at St. Philip. Best part about coming back to school was that I was a celebrity, and my homeroom teacher Mrs. Foley went to the Schwegmann's on the corner of Vets/Power and got me a roast beef po-boy for lunch that day.

Mid 80's I was going South on Causeway on the overpass to get on Jefferson Hwy. Some a-hole was passing an 18 wheeler in the blind turn. I hit my breaks and he continued to pass the truck and just made it with inches before a head on collision with me. There is no way that a-hole is alive today with the way he was driving.

I was the best man in my buddies wedding. I had a party for them the Sunday before the wedding. I was drinking Scotch. I drank about 3 quarters of the bottle. I was so sick/alcohol poisoning (?). I have never been that sick from alcohol in my life. I had to get re-fitted for tux because I had lost so much weight. I could barely give the best man speech Wednesday night.

Shot in the neck by a 7mm-08, I don't recommend it

Turning left, with a green arrow in a Toyota Camry. I was in the back seat. There was a Ford Excursion coming the opposite direction that T-boned us going about 50mph on my side. I honestly don't know how I survived it.

I was a kid (6 or 7 years old) riding on a tractor with my father as he plowed. I was standing beside the chair, and the back of the tractor was open. Hit a bump and I fell straight back, hit my back hard, and couldn't move as I was between the tractor and plow. My father stopped in time, and luckily my brother was not far away so he ran and pulled me out.

Pretty sure one night years ago in college a mixture of cocaine and Xanax and too much whiskey almost killed me. Like I laid in the bed and couldn't force myself to move. It took all the concentration I had to clench and release my fist over and over. Then I blacked out and woke up 8 hours later and was ok. Never got that fricked up again

Allergic reaction to shellfish, ate it ky whole life untik i was 26. Was at resturant eating and all of a sudden felt like my body was on fire and knew something was wrong. We got in vehicle and headed towards ER.. started vomiting everywhere. Got there and my bp was something insane.. gave me epi and steroid shot, i was scared and asked what now, they just said lets see if the shots work... and i was like "and if they dont". Needless to say i have major anxiety eating places now and never even eat places that cook shellfish. Went to specialist and got tested and he said i was on the highest scale and any exposure could be deadly.

I got pulled under water after trying to surf in Hawaii. I was dragged so far under and out that I physically gave up. Seconds later I was in a few inches of water. Stood up and never went back in the water.