have you been close to death?

this isn't about me, but about my brother.
We were in the san juan islands, and I'm not sure which island this is, but my brother and three friends biked up mt constitution, while my dad and I hiked up. So they were fine on the way up, and we actually met them on the way up, and at the top. On the way down the 'mountain', my brother's brakes had gotten really worn down and so they didn't work so well, but he didn't notice cause he was just cruising down the road. When he got to a really sharp turn, he tried braking, but they wouldn't work, and so he ended up flipping over a guardrail (bike and all), into stinging nettle and blackberry bushes. He rolled a little bit, and if he had rolled any more (at least 5 ft), he'd have fallen off some steep hill into who knows what. His friends didn't notice Josh missing until they got back to the campsite and they figured out who he was between. So they got my mom to drive up the road to try and find him. They saw his bike locked up to the guardrail, and I guess he was so dazed that he decided to climb up the the top of the mountain or something. There were tourists where he had flipped that kept pointing and saying 'bike!' and somebody showed my mom pictures of my brother flipping over the guard rail on her digi camera. He's okay, but he was in so much pain because of the stinging nettle and blackberry thorns all over his body for at least a week.

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i fell in a hole at a beach, almost suffocated, i had sand in my nose, ears,eyes everything it was messed up

and i got ina car accident with eastcoastpride in vermont, we didnt almost die but it was freaky as hell

aside from suicide attempts where I was a few balls short of carrying them out...I got stuck under innertubes in a riverrapid ride at a waterpark, and was on my last breath when a guy pulled me out...I seriously started to go black I was about 8

This other one wasn't near death but my friends and I were out shooting and I walked up to the grove and they were back a few paces and my friend turned and shot at a tree next to me...my glasses were on so I had little peripheral...a piece of shrapnel from the tree flew of and caught me under the eye...I staggered back dropping my rifle, things slowed down, my friends started blankly at me, I thought the shrapnel was a bullet

I have had two close calls:

Last summer when I was crewing in sailboat I nearly drowned. I was out on the trapeze, going on a reach, with the chute up. We were flying along until the wind died and we deathrolled (flipped). Usally no big deal, but this time when I swam for the surface I couldn't reach it. My trapeze harness' hook got caught on a line. I was down for probally a minute trying to untangle the line, but finally the saftey boat came over and managed to pull me out.

THe othertime was when I ended up in the windsheild of my friends car. Long story short, had no clue where I was but the police said if we were going 5 mph faster I would have been thrown through the windsheild and killed on impact. scary
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yeah mine arent really hard core but they were as close as i have come to death or just when i thought i would die, the first one was when i was surfing for the first time in pismo beach there was a massive wave and i tried to paddle under it but i didnt go down far enough and i got caught in it and it tumbled me around for what felt like 5 mins, but while i was tumbling around like that i just thought i was going to die and it freaked me out, then the second time was when i went off on this cross country trail at mount snow pretty late in the day to try and get to the lodge faster but it turned out that i had to skate 5 miles to get back to a hotel place but i was out there in the middle of nowhere lost and i thought i was gonna die, it was scary
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lets see i'll tell some stories of people i know that have died. and then i'll tell some stories of me almost dying.

so my older sister's friend: his heart started beating backward. nothing the kid could do. he died in the hospital telling his dad he was fine. he was 14.

another friend of my older sisters. he was sleeping in a car and was belted in. the driver fell asleep and the kid got shot outa the car wind sheild and killed.

another one of my sisters firends: she was sleeping in the back of her parents mini-van on a road trip. he dad hit black ice on the highway and she shot out of the car window and the car ran over her. she died in her dads arms.

a kid i know, his older bro was killed in a drunken car accident as well.

alright now for my personal stories.

first time i almost died was at this water park in cali. i was coming down this tube slide and there was a back up in this water hole. so many people were in it, my raft got knocked over and i went under the water. there was no opening, it was all rafts...i was jumping up and hitting people's rafts but no one got off their raft. i didn't have much air cuz i didn't expect to get tipped over. so after a couple trys i started swimming around looking for the exit of the water pool. i fucking crawled out from under all the rafts and ended up scratching up my whole frontside on concrete to get out from under those rafts.....i just went to the bottom of the slide and fucking went home. i was like 5. shit still scares me today, i thought i was gonna be the dead kid in the newspaper.

when i was 8 or 9...i was skiing at a basin with all these ski patrollers. i was mobbing and fucking skiing better then most of them. turns out it was an icy day. i lost a ski on a mogul, and i had those puffy nylon ski pants that slide like a mother fucker. i slipped on a mogul while walkig up to get my ski and fucking slid like 600 feet down a narrow ass tree run that was all moguls.....my dad atch me slide by him and said i was fucking over his head. i luckly stopped myself from sliding at this little flat area where the run breaks into three runs. it was also right under the lift so i was all close to the big ass poles sticking outa the ground. i was fucking lucky not to go straight into a tree or one of those. ended up with a bloody nose, bit through my lip. and a sore ass from all those moguls.

i was probably 7 or so. and my dad owned a 40 foot sail boat. it was a bad storm and we were out sailing, so we were headed into the bay and waves were carshing on us hard. my dad went to put down down masts. so he was on the nose on the boat. which was this long plant that went out. with the brutal waves the nose of our ship kepts going under water. and since we were putting down the sails, we had the motor running. so as my dad was on the tip of the ship and it went under. i was driving the boat with my uncle i think. and we noticed he wasn't on the nose when it came up. i thought i had drove over my dad with the boat and chopped him up in the preplar. it was scary as shit, i was all crying cuz i thought i killed my dad. then my uncle ran up to the front of the ship and found him hanging on to a rope and pulled him in. that was scary as fuck.

my bud paul was driving his brand new audi. fucking took a left hand turn WAY too fucking late. and we got t-boned like none other. the jeep that hit us was going something like 50. and we were going probably 40-45. the kid sitting in the passenger seat was hanging out of the sun roof at the time. and me and the other kid in the back we're belted in. all i saw was the jeeps headlights coming towards the passenger side of the car. i was on the drive side. i grabbed the oh shit bar and said 'oh shit', of course, my friend sitting next to me turned his head to see what i was yelling about and we got plowed. we spun a 270 in our car and came within 5 feet from going into a light pole. my friend who looked after i said oh shit, his head went straight through his window, forehead first. the kid hanging out of the sun roof, lived. his seat was gone...so being out of the sunroof saved his life. i woke up on top of the kid next to me in a 69 position, i had a cut in my knee and a huge bump on my head, and that was it. i think they still talk about that wreck in the drunk driving classes around here. we all should've been killed.

i got in another car wreck going up skiing. i was sleeping behind the drivers seat without my belt on. we hit black ice. i wake up and we're sliding down the highway passenger side first going about 40, it was icy out so she was driving slow (speed limit was 75). we go sliding into the median (a dirt ditch) sideways, i grab the oh shit handle and then our front tires hit the dirt. the dirt causes us to roll...we hit the passenger side of the car and get fucking airborne and land on the otherside of the ditch on the driver side of the car. we're still sldinging but now on the oncoming traffic side of the highway. one car misses us and the next thing to come is a firetruck. we get outa the car and the fire trucks guys are there. said they watched the whole thing. also there was one of those metal poles....and luckily it got crushed by the side of the car...but it was right next to my window, could've came through my window and stabbed me. we all walked away form that one with no injuries.

one time in my pops car i started choking on an ice cube. but we were on the highway so no one could give me the hemlic. so i jsut had to let the ice melt in my throut.......that was scary as well.

my buddies were chilling in their car at a red light and an excushion slammed right into the back of their car going 80. they all walked as well.

i'll tpye some mroe if i think of them.


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my dad was drivin home at 4am in his gto, fell asleep and went up the bank on the side of the road and rolled over. The top of the car smashed in, and my dad woke up with the bench seat of the car on one side of him and the roof on the other. If he wore his seat belt he would have died.
-chris

Lucky for your dad, Poor GTO... man i want one real bad.
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here are some mroe stories:


i was rock climbing one morning. i was drinking all night and it was about 5 in the morning, we decided to go rock climbing. little did i know the kid that i decided to do this with was a bad ass rock climber. so im jsut following him and we were doing some technical shit. and this one time i couldn't go back down, so i had to keep going and fucking i ended up slipping. the kid caught my arm and fucking pulled me up. i would've been fucked up. probably would've feel like 20-25 feet hit rock then rolled down this huge rock face and hit some more rocks at the bottom. it wouldn't have been pretty.

this yea i was skiing, i was mobbing through some trees and shit, going down to this spot to smoke a bowl. not more than 4 turns into the trees and i slammed right into a tree. i was going mach speed and caught my ski on something, so i lost that skis edge and was just riding one ski...didn't turn fast enough and clipped my shoulder on the tree....i hit it and spun a 180 and ate shit in the powder. that shit sucked.

i was riding my bike all quick to get to my friends. my chain slipped off as i was peddeling as fast as i could, it got caught in my back tire and i went flying over the handle bars. i did i flip over my handle bars and landed right on my shoudler and head. got knocked out, woke up to some guy peeling me off the asphault. had to have surgery to put my collar bone back together. it was shitty, still ahve the metal plate in there.

i was 5 and riding my bike, you know how they say don't ride on wet slanted crubs cuz you can slip out. well i figured my rubber wheels could hang. i slipped and busted my chin open on my handle bars. i was all light headed and shit and had to walk home. leaving this huge ass trail of blood behind me...i rang the doorbell and passed the fuck out. that sucked.

i was fighitng with my little bro one day. and i threw and orange at him full speed, just to scare him, but i through it to the side. he ducked his face right to the side i was throwing it. hit him right in the face and he fucking started caughing up blood and shit. his nose was busted up and all sorts of shit, he looked nasty.

to get back at me for that one, my bro walked up to me while i was playing nintendo or something and fucking decked me right in the bridge of my nose with a vacum extension. i was gonna kill him, then i remember how badly i made him bleed with the orange and i let him slide. he was lucky that day.

so im mobbing down this huge hill going something like 40 mph on one of those razor scooters. and i was trying to do the whole hill without using the brakes ones. (the hill is long as fuck, it's at red rocks. from the trading post (top) of red rocks to the bottom. i went around this one cornor and it had some gravel on it, the scooter slipped out on me and i slammed on my stomahc, i poped up immediately and started running, i manages to only scratch my knees and had this huge gash in my forearm, i thought my face was gonna be road rash.


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I haven't been close to death and I glad!


- Just me, Oh! I don't actually even know who this is. Hmm... Gotta think on that one.

i was driving down the highway and we almost hit a big big moose


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I choked on a Jolly Rancher once, I thought i was gonna die but i was just stupid


IM out like a blind kid in laser tag--- --- I'm out like a midget in a high jump competition

3 times I can think of that I shouldn't have lived.

1. severe concussion last year. 20 foot high drop straight on my head onto solid ice that morning.
Ski patrol thought I was either dead or paralyzed.
my blood pressure dropped, and I was unconscious for approx. 4 minutes.

2. I was driving over an extremely windy pass. I was going about 60 mph on a straight section of the road; a hairpin turn approached. the suggested speed for the turn was about 15 mph and even that was too fast. There was no guard rail and if you went off the road you would drop off a cliff.

I tapped my breaks. nothing happened.. I was still hauling ass. I pumped my breaks - still nothing. My heart was beating fast, I picked up speed and was now going 70 mph headed straight for a cliff.
I slammed my breaks. Nothing happened!!
Oh shit. I was going to die. I knew it.
As a last ditch effort I pulled the ebrake.
no response. the breaks were disconnected.
I closed my eyes and just prepared for the impact.

I do not know how, but when I opened my eyes I had made it through the turn without brakes.

3. I was innertubing with a friend down a river.
The water started getting rough - the section we ahead was a level 5 rapid area.
Cliff drops, sharp rocks, and many other advanced obstables awaited.
We try to get out of the water.
I grab the intertube and stand on top of a rock near the shore. I slip and get taken down the rapids.

Getting tossed and turned I struggled to stay above the water. My head smacked exposed rocks just before I dropped off a cliff area. I get shoved down, 10, maybe 13 feet under water. The water crashes down on me, forcing me under. I try to swim up but my ankle is jammed in between a rock. I battle for life and can not break free.
Fighting only made it worse. But I did not give up. My efforts were futile. However, the water eventually pushed me free. Just as I come to the surface to breathe some air I get thrown down a rocky area hitting my head on numerous rocks.

Amazingly, I come out fine.

Eat. Sleep. Breathe. Ski.

I know i've come close a few times in my life. Though, right now, all i can think is on my motorcycle.
I had to take a soft shoulder at 80+kph with a passenger so we wouldn't rearend a skidding truck. Managed to keep it up.

I passed a 2 semi-trucks and then there was a curve and I went around the curve and crossed the white line at the edge of the road, but didn't go off somehow. (both of those were on my cruiser)

I came around a blind corner at 150kph in calibogie, to see people comeing to a stop and stopped. I steered to the right and came within inches of hitting the rider there, and then couldn't bring it back and went into the ditch at 100kph. Wrote off the bike. Drove it home.

I rearended a volvo, got a concussion. (still saying not my fault, bad luck on that one)

I know i have more none bike related, but i can't think of any right now. hmmm
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