Any one ever had any. i have had a couple, was born doa. then nearly choked to death as an infant when wrapped around in a blanket.

i don't really remember any thing significant from that time of course so i can't really say that i felt any changes after those experiences.

I got hit in the head with a baseball bat as a kid and was at a lousy babysitter house when it happend. That nearly killed me.
I nearly drowned a couple of times.
and
I got front row sets to a tripple fatal car crash.
Once you see death at point blank range---it really changes the way you think sometimes.

Probably the closest would be the times I've gone into anaphylactic shock, which can easily kill you. I've done that a few times too many, but I don't have anything profound to say about the experience other than "boy this sure svcks".

Almost got into car accident when I was younger which could of been bad, doubt it would of been near fatal though.Me and my dad where driving somewhere when some ignorant person whipped out in front of us. We where going about 50MPH at the time so there was no chance of breaking in time and my dad had to swerve into the other lane which was empty.

Maybe when I was younger and had a real bad problem with asthma but I hardly remember that.

Wait... you were born dead? How would they revive a small newborn?

idk the technical details but the knowledge to resesitate infants has been around for a while now, not sure how long. but i had deficiencies until up to the age of 11 because of it.

The term "Near Death Experience" usually refers to some sort of supernatural or paranormal thing, just so you know.

Nearly drowned once and thats about it.

That svcks
Edited because that I originally replied to the whole post and that could be misunderstood.

i am not going to stop some any one who wants to talk about either, i don't really believe in the supernatural so thats a big :shrug: from me.



having to tough it out through the deficencies has made me a bit tougher than the average person, in regards of lung capacity and resistance to flu and since i can hardly remember any thing from back then it was more than worth it.

Yeah, this. Every time I've ever seen a thread titled "near death experience," it's always filled with people talking about how they nearly died. That's not what the term means. It's about experiencing something while you're dead, i.e. you die for a few minutes and then they bring you back.

As far as "times that I almost died" goes, I was born with the umbilical cord wrapped around my throat. My theory is that I was trying to commit suicide when I found out I was being born. Other than that, can't say I've ever come close. Thus, no near-death experience either.

Me too. It was wrapped around twice and they had to do a C-section.

When I almost double loaded mortar during live fire exercise.

When I was honing the tripwire of explosive charge during military training. Well in that case it would have only blown away my fingers since it was
training charge.

When I was young my airways were blocked 95% by my tonsils and they had to have surgery, in the middle of it I couldn't breathe as they had several tools shoved down there and almost died, when I woke up in the hospital I was hallucenating.

Another time was also when I was a kid, I was running around our house as a toddler and hit the corner of a door frame and it split my head open and I had severe bleeding and had to be taken to the ER immediately.

Then there was an anthrax ordeal a few years back when anthrax was being shipped to US officers around the globe, I happened to be visiting a Navy CDR's apartment for bible study and also to help him move his recently arrived packages containing his stuff, and when we openned a box with his Uniform, Backpack, and Medals some white powder burst into the air and we had to contact a Navy Base and have them send in a Biohazard team (I believe that's the closest to what they actually were called.) and we, along with the rest of the people on his floor, were in a quarenteen for a few hours until we had the okay to leave after we got diagnosed for any signs of poisoning.

Then there was a time when my son died from poisoning, around that time I got shot in the leg and rammed by a van and had my rotator cuff torn, and ended up travelling across the world for medical treatment that was not available in my vicinity.

And most recently I was driving a truck filled with crates of my employeers supplies, food, weapons, and all that other stuff you'd expect to see when I hit a bump in the road and drove offroad and went through a 17-20 foot drop and crashed into a rocky hill, where rocks fell and hit the drivers compartment and two fell on my leg, one smashing my knee and the other nearly breaking part of my bone, I just finished therapy for this but it'll never heal properly and i'll technically be a cripple for life.

When I was in kindergarten or first grade, I was bouncing on the top of a bunk bed on the top floor of a two story house. I lost my balance and I reached for the window to help support me. Well the window was open and I flew out of said window. Luckily there was a carport there, or else I wouldn't have ever known what it felt like to play an elder scrolls game... I don't have any scars to show off that situation... Though I found out later that one of the people on calls was one of my more recent employers, and he told me that no one thought I was still alive. I proved them wrong. :tongue:

Another one was when I was getting sodas for my dad and me at a gas station by the school he works at. I was going across the cross walk, and saw that people stopped for me. Well a stupid mail truck came bombing down the road, and if a car that was stopped didn't honk, I would've been road kill.

A more recent one was when I was coming home from work, and I took the wrong exist on the freeway so I took another exist to go the other direction on the freeway. My car hit a big puddle in the exit which made me hydroplane, and almost crash into a barrier. Luckily I paid attention to what my dad told me to do in those situations.

None of them really changed me except now because of the window incident, I am afraid of heights.....

Same here.

I was almost struck by lightning when I was ~5 and I was almost hit by a city bus last year. That's about it. Gawd those bus drivers can't drive. You're supposed to stop at red lights....

I had a seizure disorder until I was about 12 (just stopped having them, don't know why). When I was 7, my doctor put me on a new medication (don't recall which one). I had an allergic reaction that caused the worst seizure I ever had. While being transported by ambulance, my heart stopped. Obviously, they managed to get it going again (unless I'm a zombie ), but it was a near thing. In order to try and keep my seizure disorder under control, I was pumped full of Dilantin (I'll never forget that name).

I had an allergic reaction to Dilantin as well, which triggered another life threatening seizure and resulted in a case of Steven-Johnson syndrome so severe it was initially diagnosed as Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis. I spent the next eight weeks in pure agony, half the time wishing I hadn't survived the first major seizure (let alone the second). Not the best year of my life by any means, but I survived it (even though the doctors thought I wouldn't).

The experience changed my entire outlook on life, and drastically refined my definition of "pain".

...Sweet holy [censored]. o.o

When did you join?

I finished my duty 3 years ago.

More times than I can count, actually. I've been in several car accidents and fights.

Not really. I had a terrible nosebleed when I was a kid and was sent to the hospital, but I didn't feel like I was in mortal peril.

I was born DoA, I wasn't breathing, a car almost ran me down when i was crossing the road and I can't think of anything else right now.

Never really had a near death experience. I've been smashed up pretty bad before, but nothing life threatening. The closest thing I can think of was about a month ago, I was in the passenger seat when my mom was driving, we were coming up on a Y intersection at about 40 mph, and while my mom wasn't paying attention we nearly got into a head on collision with an SUV. I yelled out at the last second and my mom slammed on the brakes, it was actually pretty terrifying.