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We never really know when or how our time on this planet might come to an end. But these Redditors found themselves frighteningly close to finding out.

In a recent thread, they shared their near-death experiences, recounting the moments when luck, quick thinking, or sheer coincidence spared them from a tragic fate. From parachute falls to near-drownings, read their incredible stories below and give your favorites an upvote.

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People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It Working tired and in a rush. Worked late about 14 hours trying to please my boss. I was way too tired to be working, and my coworker and I were rushing to get done to go home. I'm a painter and was cutting in the top part of the wall on a 4 foot scaffold. I was on the tip top and missed the step board on the way down. My foot went in between the boards and vaulted the back of my head into the concrete at what I assume a decent speed. I was entirely unconscious, but my coworker came over, and he said I just looked stiff, and then I seized then limp and then seized and limp. He called 911, and the whole 10-15 minutes, he said I would seize go limp and then seize again. He heard the sirens and said the last thing he saw was me go limp and start snoring aggressively (agonal breaths). Luckily, I woke up not knowing anything, and I mean, I had no clue my own name couldn't recognize my wife, couldn't tell them where I lived and it took several days to be able to remember some things. Dr. Said that fall, and the damage to my head should've [ended] me. Boss stuck me with the $15k hospital bill and told everyone I worked for myself. I had a focal seizure a few days later, and now I'm dependent on epilepsy meds and can't function without them and will never be off them. I have never been the same since the injury. Lesson- Don't do anything extra for your boss they don't care whatsoever about you.

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It 5th parachute jump my main failed, couldn't go to reserve bc I was spinning too fast. Main popped at 400 ft.

    All my other jumps had been from 3000 ft. This one was from 5000 ft bc another jumper had paid extra to go higher. If not for him, I would have splattered.

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    While there’s no magical countdown to tell us when our final moment will arrive, we can generally steer clear of risks that might shorten our lifespan—whether that’s smoking, excessive drinking, or participating in extreme sports. Still, even with precautions, hitting that 80-year mark isn’t guaranteed. After all, staying sheltered and missing out on life’s thrills isn’t the best way to truly live.

    So, just how dangerous can some activities be? To find out, Bored Panda reached out to u/MightyKittenEmpire2, one of the Redditors who shared his near-death experience. On his fifth skydiving attempt, things took a dramatic turn when his parachute failed to deploy. As he plummeted from 5,000 feet, it wasn’t until he reached 400 feet that it finally opened.

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    Throughout the fall, u/MightyKittenEmpire2 remained focused on his training. “There’s a multi-step procedure to deploy the reserve chute that I had practiced over 200 times,” he shared. “It was a chant that, 40 years later, I can no longer remember.” However, knowing the steps doesn’t mean you can fully control the situation. “My feet were tangled in the cords, leaving me hanging upside down, and the partially deployed main chute caused me to spin rapidly,” he explained. “I was laser-focused on the process, with no time to think about anything else.”
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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It I had an appendicitis and went to the ER, where they did some scans. They told me everything was fine and come back if the pain persists. Fortunately, I had looked at the notes for the scan on the hospitals patient app and saw that they saw what looked like a clip on my appendix like I had an appendectomy though the appendix was still there. I asked the doctor about it, and they still told me to come back if it persisted.

    I went home and was still in excruciating pain. I am talking pain worse than any broken bone or other type of experience I have EVER had. Eventually, I went back and insisted they check my appendix, they did another scan, and eventually got them to bring in a surgeon. The surgeon didn't do much more than put his finger on my abdomen and ask me about the pain before he told them to prep me for surgery.

    As it turned out, my appendix was almost ready to rupture, and I had a bowel obstruction. Either of those things could have [ended] me.

    Remember folks, always advocate for your own health. Medical professionals make mistakes at work the same as any of us.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Similar thing happened with me and my gallbladder. First hospital, the guy was an idiot and I told him so. He wasn't happy about that. Second hospital ran the same tests, same results but, based on those results, did more testing and found my gallbladder was so infected that it was oozing. Was in the hospital for like a week, mostly to get the infection under control and then the surgery.

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It Jumped into a river to save a drowning friend, when I jumped in and made the swim he was panicking and tried to pull himself up on me which in turn pushed me under. If it wasn’t for another friend throwing in the life ring both of us would have died that day.

    Now whenever I see a missing ring near water I report it immediately.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That‘s why resquers sometimes punch the person they want to safe.

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It I got bit by a dog after it had been chewing on a dead bear. Got sepsis within 48 hours. Horrible.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That photo is really creepy. Gonna be seeing that dog in my nightmares

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    “Eventually, one leg got free, which reversed my spin,” he continued. “That meant I had to throw the reserve in the opposite direction, so I adjusted my position. Just as I restarted the procedure, the other leg fell out, causing the spin to reverse again. So, I had to begin the reserve procedure all over again. That’s when the main chute finally popped open.”

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    “I thought I had yelled and cursed the whole way down,” admitted u/MightyKittenEmpire2. “I vividly remembered doing just that. But a news crew filmed me from the ground, there to capture a jump competition later that day. Their footage showed me repeatedly mumbling the chant to deploy the reserve. My training kicked in.”

    Despite the harrowing experience, u/MightyKittenEmpire2 wasn’t deterred from skydiving again. “I made one more jump to prove to myself I could overcome my fears,” he said. “It went well. As a poor college student, I decided I didn’t have enough money to get good, and being bad wasn’t a viable long-term plan.”
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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It As embarrassing as it is to admit, a grape. Was eating alone at home one night and swallowed it whole, and I immediately started choking. Obviously I managed to dislodge it, but damn if it wasn't the scariest moment of my life.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know a little boy who choked on a grape. He ended up having permanent brain damage because he was without oxygen for so long. He ended up passing away a year or so later, I can't remember the specific reason but somehow related to the grape incident. Freaking grapes.

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It Pneumonia, which was misdiagnosed as anxiety. I perhaps had Covid atop of pneumonia. I had been working a new teaching job for two months and had moved to a new location. I became sick. The doctors chalked it up to pneumonia while anxiety was making the illness worse than it seemed. Turns out I had myocarditis and a heart attack occurred during the inflammation of my heart muscles. I'm still recovering despite it being a year later. My stamina took a major hit and my heart shows signs of damage on an EKG.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I had an ER doctor who didn't believe I had pneumonia and said I was having a panic attack! I had been diagnosed the day before in that exact same hospital!!! I had to get rushed back to the ER the next day because of my high fever and I couldn't breath, tried explaining I had pneumonia and the doctor said "who told you that?!" with an eye roll. I was then admitted for 5 nights and almost died. I hate that doctor.

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    #8

    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It Year was 2001. Just left a buddies house with 4 of my buddies in a small a*s 1980s Plymouth reliant. We were only a 1/4 mile away, I was in the passenger back seat. We pulled up to a Stop sign on a busy road. Driver didnt  really fully stop and pulled out into the street. An F350 was was barreling down the road and hit us going 70mph. I was on the impact side. 

    We got pushed 40-50 feet or more into a gas station, coming within 3 feet of a gas pump. I was knocked unconscious and woke up roughly 15 minutes later , in a daze unsure what had happened. When I came to, I just remember being hunched over, and first thing I noticed was my jaw didn’t feel right. I moved it left to right and it just made the worst popping sounds. I remember looking up and seeing police lights flashing everywhere. 

    They ended up using the jaws of life to get me out. Ended up breaking both my mandibles in my jaw, my left clavicle, 3 places in my pelvis and my collar bone. Couldn’t walk for 3 months. Jaw was wired shut. 

    Ended up making a full recovery and living a normal life. I was 19 at the time, even enlisted in the navy the following year. 41 today and suffer from some joint ailments and dull aches and pains but that’s about it. Happy to answer any questions. Oh and everyone survived miraculously. .

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! My two aunts and two uncles were in a car and got hit by a truck (t-boned). They all died.

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    Now, if you’ve ever considered trying skydiving, you might feel a little apprehensive after reading this. That’s completely understandable! However, it’s worth noting that while the idea of skydiving may sound dangerous, the likelihood of something going wrong is quite low.

    According to the British Parachute Association, once a skydiver is fully trained, the average injury rate is just 0.25 injuries per 1,000 jumps (or 1 in 4,000), and the fatality rate is under 0.6 per 100,000 jumps (around 1 in 168,000). In the United States, the US Parachute Association reports an average of about 18 skydiving deaths per year over the last decade, with an estimated 3.9 million jumps in 2022 and around 20 related fatalities.

    While these statistics classify skydiving as a high-risk sport, they put things into perspective—jumping with a parachute is actually much safer than driving a car. According to Esurance, your odds of getting into a car accident are about 1 in 366 for every 1,000 miles driven. For many of us, driving is a daily activity, and that’s something to consider.

    Ultimately, whether we find ourselves in a life-threatening event often comes down to statistics. As for whether it was fate or luck that saved u/MightyKittenEmpire2, we may never know for sure, but he refers to it as a fortunate happenstance.

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    #9

    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It I was returning a DVD to the collection bin in the parking lot. I had a girlfriend in my truck with me.
    I pulled up, put my window down and started to put the DVD through my window. I hit the frame and it knocked the DVD out of my hand on to the ground. I jumped out to pick it up without putting my truck in park.
    My door hit one of the steel poles protecting that bin from idiots, but not this one.
    My door trapped my head between it and my truck. Car isn't in park, so it's moving forward and crushing my head. I could feel the bones moving in my skull.
    The girl in my truck couldn't see what was going on clearly. She was laughing.
    I got my foot inside and hit the brake. Shifted into reverse, and freed my head. Had a good dent for a couple of weeks.
    I hate to think about panicking and hitting the gas that day.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's similar to how Anton Yelchin, the actor from Star Trek and Odd Thomas, died. Tragic.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Except he did put his car in park - it just had a known defect that caused it to roll and crush him.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Reminds me of a video I saw some years ago. Can't remember all the specifics but girl had her leg out of the car, I think she was going to back up a little but had it in drive instead and hit the gas, car went forward, door hits pole thereby pinching her leg and then the car went over the curb so leg had to move back to stay with curb, but it couldn't because it was p[inched in the door, so it just folded.

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    #10

    A stranger, and my best friend.

    Stranger drugged me at a bar; but I OD'd. Ended up in cardiac arrest.

    My "friend" waited 3.5 hours to call EMS, because she thought I was being "dramatic and drunk."

    She also failed to perform CPR on me correctly (on my clavicle) after telling me 6mos prior I was stupid and didn't know CPR (been in medical care for 10 years, and cpr trained since I was 16) and that she was smarter than me despite never taking a single cpr class.

    She had the audacity to act like she saved my life after all was said and done.

    I was lucky her 16 year old brother was at the apartment when she finally managed to get me upstairs and throw me on the couch. He called EMS the 3rd time I collapsed. (She let me fall down 2 flights of stairs, THREE TIMES)

    I woke up several days later on life support with a busted nose, two black eyes, a busted mouth, fractured clavicle, fractured leg, and tendons torn in my arm.

    She thought I couldn't remember anything, but I remember bits and peices; enough to know how much of an a-hole she is.

    Tldr; Be careful of who your friends are. Turns out she was a super jealous and insecure person who didn't care about me at all, and envied me to the point she wanted to see me burn.

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    I touched a rock to remove some fishing line while scuba diving, I was wearing my cold water gloves cause I couldn’t find my thin warm water ones that morning. That rock was a stone fish, his spines went through my heavy gloves and scratched the skin but didint break it, I would have been dead before I got to the boat.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don’t know much about stonefish so I had to google it: “The stonefish is the most venomous known fish in the world and stings can cause death if not treated. Most stonefish stings occur as a result of stepping on the creature which forces venom into the foot, while it is less common for the fish to sting when it is picked up.”

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It The ceiling in my bedroom collapsed while I was sleeping due to water damage. Luckily I had rearranged the furniture in my room a few months before and my bed was under the only part of the ceiling that didn't collapse. I was 12 at the time.

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    A dog.

    Pretext - I was 9y/o and at a family reunion and a family member had an Akita. This dog had already snapped at multiple kids and had bitten their daughter’s hand, requiring stitches.

    I was outside playing with my cousin, I came inside because I was hot and my mom looks over at me from a basement bar she is sitting at with her siblings and parents, and she offers to get me water. I declined the water and right after I said “no thanks”, the dog lunged at me from a couple feet away and I happened to look down at it as the movement startled me. Me looking down meant that it only got part of my neck, the rest was my jaw. If I hadn’t looked down I would likely have died as the dog would have gotten my neck. Anyways, I started bleeding profusely and my mom was obviously in shock. Thankfully, two family members are nurses, and my uncle was a veteran and had critical life saving skills. So they were able to keep me going until I got to the nearest hospital where I was operated on to stitch me up and repair damages to my tissue and jaw bone. The bite was, per the surgeon, “too close for comfort to my carotid artery”.

    Later on my wounds got infected and one of the K-9 tooth wounds popped with infection. Literally popped. I have a massive scar where it popped because it made the wound so much bigger. So then I had an extended stay in the hospital while they treated that issue.

    Also the hospital had a therapy dog going around one of the days I was there and for some reason nobody passed along the memo to not bring it in my room.

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It I fell out of the raft while white water rafting. Our guide was great about telling us where to go if we fell out during certain rapids. On this particular rapid he said “if you fall out on this one…..well, just don’t fall out.”

    So anyway, I fell out on that rapid. My shoulder hit a rock hard enough to tear the skin off. I heard the guide yell “oh s**t” right as I got pulled under. I don’t know how long I was under for, but it seemed like forever and everything slowed down. When I came back up the guide had his paddle stretched out just barely out of reach. We both stretched a little further and I grabbed the paddle and got pulled back into the raft. Apparently, earlier that week someone had died on that rapid after falling out.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never understood white water rafting. Why voluntarily put yourself in a position where you have to fight for your life?

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    Stupidity did that.

    My family and I were on a little trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, driving around the forest area, admiring the white waters. After a moment, my dad pulled over at a spot where there was just a little bit of road with just enough room to walk along the edge. My mom and dad got out with their phones, They told me if I got out I would fall, so I took that as a challenge of course. I was on the side where, if I opened the door and stepped out, I would have plummeted into rocks, sticks, and a s**t ton of old trash, PLUS a strong current below.

    But, being a stupid pubescent 13-year-old, I decided to test my luck. Same second I stepped out I cartoonishly plummeted. I managed to grab onto a strong root with my right hand and dug my nails into the dirt with the other, desperately trying to hold on. My dad noticed instantly and bolted over to my dumba*s and angrily gripped my wrist lifting me up like a crazed gorilla.

    What was insane was that he was at least four feet away, but he reached me in like half a second. The most impressive part is at the time, my dad was morbidly obese, yet he moved faster than I had ever seen a human move. He saved my life that day.

    Not too crazy of a story but just felt like sharing.


    TL;DR
    I was a dumba*s and stepped out of my car and nearly plummeted to a rocky and sharp river with a current.

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    I was 5 or 6 years old, walking home from a friend's house in the afternoon, which was totally kosher in the 80's.

    Thin guy with stringy blond hair pulled over in his, I kid you not, white van to ask for help looking for his pet. I absolutely believed him because he knew the animal's name. Perfect 5 year old logic.

    He got close enough to hand me $2 to reward my help, and something shook loose in my brain and I booked it home. My dad was FURIOUS. He flushed the money down the toilet and then disappeared for a couple of hours. He never brought it up again.

    Honestly, if he hadn't flushed the money I might not even remember the incident. Now, at 41 years old, it scares the absolute s**t out of me. I still remember that guys hair. In my memory, he looks exactly like Funboy from The Crow.

    Anyway. Those after school specials were a goddamned documentary apparently, and I was almost on a milk carton. Good times.

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It Giving birth and having the placenta not detach so lost a lot of blood.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Childbirth is scary. My ex had an emergency caesarian after 50 hours in labour. A century earlier, they both would have died.

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It I wanted to see if my car could reach 100mph.

    I was on a dark country road.


    I think about that now and a pit forms in my stomach. Such an idiot.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I did something similar in my foolish youth. A decade ago I had a *cool* Pontiac sportscar. One night I was taking it up a twisty road through the forest. I was alone. I spun out and the car stopped less than a foot from a telephone pole. I have only been a safe law-abiding driver since.

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It Diabetes. During the Covid pandemic, I started losing my hair, having severe heart pain, constant vomiting, my vision became blurred and I lost around 30kg in 2 months. My change was so quick and drastic that my wife thought I had cancer. I went to the doctor and my blood sugar was 790. The doctor said that if I had taken a few more days to start treatment, I would probably have had a heart attack at 23 years of age.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Beginning of this year my husband started acting lethargic, slurred speech, lost a ton of weigh, and all bad. He finally went to the ER after a couple days of telling him to go. His blood sugar was 1856. The doctors were so surprised he walked in to the ER. They all said that was the highest they have ever seen it, especially in someone not in a coma. He spent a week in ICU on an insulin drip. He had undiagnosed type 2 diabetes. He is now on medicine and doing a lot better.

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It Had a small infected sore on my foot. Got progressively worse over a long weekend. Got home on a holiday Monday and developed a high fever - freezing cold on a 90 degree day. Wanted to sleep it off and my wife forced me to emerg. Cellulitis. Gigantic memory foam leg. IV therapy for a week. Exact same thing happened two years later.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exact same thing? I sincerely hope you didn't have to be forced to go to the emergency that time too.

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    #21

    Get a normal amount of sleep!

    I ran my own business and was really proud of it, ended up getting a big project where I estimated based on two other developers helping me who'd worked on a number of projects before. The two other developers had major life crises happen that left them to drop out so I was left to complete the project in the promised time of one month.

    I got maybe four hours of sleep a night, but realistically an average of two with a short nap or two during the day. I honestly didn't feel that bad during it. My ex-wife had gone on a trip to visit her family during the end of it since I was too busy to really pay attention to her at all and had planned to come back the night of the deadline.

    She was arriving at like 2am the night of the deadline so after I handed off the project I went to sleep at like 8pm thinking I'd be rested enough when she got in to great her. I woke up at 6am to her being home and apologized for oversleeping, she said she couldn't wake me. About and hour later I realized the date on my computer was forward by a day...but really, I'd slept for 34 hours straight.

    While it seemed kind of funny or cute at the time the lack of sleep damaged my heart and while it's technically recovered now doctors have said that most likely my life expectancy is lower than someone who hadn't been through that.

    100% not worth it for any reason, get a solid 8 hours of sleep each night and live longer.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sleep is so much more important than many people consider.

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    When I was 15, a man tried to take me back to his place by force. I would have not made it out of his grip if we didn't hit ice, he slipped, and I hip-tossed him. I ran home.

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    In college my friend and I (both females) were bored one Friday night so we decided to go on a drive and play the left right game. Basically when you come to an intersection you pick left or right. Anyway, we ended up at the nearby lake and we decided to get out of my car and walk down the dock to see the stars over the water. After a few minutes we get cold and walk back to my car and get in. As soon as I turn the car on and the headlights come on, the lights shine on 3 men coming towards us out of the trees and one was carrying something. My friend screamed and we hightailed it out of there. We were lucky…who knows what would’ve happened if we didn’t get cold so fast.

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    #24

    Three occasions I was almost unsubscribed from life.


    First time I was working a late shift in the drive thru at McDonalds. There was a shootout in the parking lot and a stray bullet barely missed me.


    Second time, I doubt anybody will believe this story. I was in a brawl and someone tried to run us over with a car, and I jumped on the hood with surprisingly minor injuries. Someone also pulled a knife out, but luckily there were some rocks nearby and I landed one on his face before he could stab anybody.



    Third time was a few years ago. I had congestive heart failure from a combination of being fat and kidneys almost failing from eatng so much sodium and sugar. Not exercising also contributed to that. I'm much healthier now and won't take that for granted again.

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    #25

    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It I was drunk, fell asleep in bed with a cigarette and only woke up because I touched the embers of my smoldering mattress in my sleep. My room was already completely full of smoke, maybe another hour and I would no longer be here.

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    #26

    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It My brakes failing (pedal fell to the floor) as I approached the old intersection of Circle Drive and 18th Street at high speed as lights changed, also to find out I had no emergency brake (wasn’t connected).

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh come on. 99% of people have no idea where "the old intersection of Circle Drive and 18th Street is or what it means. I can take an educated guess that it's an intersection in New York City, but a little context for the rest of us please

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    #27

    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It A lollipop. I was eating one at night my family was sleeping and I started choking, I couldn’t breathe. I would be very embarrassed in heaven right now if I were dead.😭😭.

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    #28

    I got trapped under a floating bouncy house. i cut the hell out of my foot but somehow survived, lol. it still scares me thinking about it.

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    People Who Almost Died Shared 30 Stories About What Led To It My mouth. I was drunk as hell one night and started running my mouth to some guy and he pulled a gun on me. Can still smell the oil.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Tell me you live in America without telling me you live in America... (I live in America, and despite never owning one, have seen my fair share of guns. this place scares me lol)

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    #30

    My grandma had a little ictus while she was driving, only me and her in the car. I didn’t have the cellphone at the time (I was like 8 yr old) and didn’t know what to do ( she wouldn’t respond). We crashed onto many things (also the guard rail) and broke mirrors…
    At a certain point we were in the wrong lane…
    Still don’t know how we got home.

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    2 weeks ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have never heard the term ictus before. (Google says) In medical terms, an ictus is a sudden attack or seizure, such as a stroke or epileptic seizure. The term is often used to emphasize the suddenness of the onset.

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