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r/TheRealQuestions - Posted by u/charonite57 - 10 hours ago

Have you ever had a near-death experience?
I mean as close to “lights out” as you can possibly get. A hand that yanked you back from a crumbling precipice, a bullet that missed you by inches, a tangled shoelace that made you late for a train crash, etc. I’m curious how many of us have had a real brush with death.
Serious answers only please.
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DangerzOne - 10 hours ago
You’ll probably get a lot of military vets answering this one. I was stationed in Iraq for a bit, and every guy in my unit had a close call at some point. Buddy of mine came thiiis close to stepping on a landmine once, and our commander shot a suicide bomber half a second before he could press the button. The closest I ever got to dying was when a grenade went off near me and I got blown into the side of a building. Chunk of rebar went right through my chest but somehow missed my vital organs. I bet you’ll find lots of similar stories if you ask around.
Wyatt52 - 10 hours ago
Definitely echo this. And it’s not just combat vets either. One of the guys in my unit passed out during boot camp and almost died because the drill instructor thought he was faking it. Ended up he had severely low blood sugar, and the workouts pushed him so hard that his body just shut down.
—DangerzOne - 10 hours ago
Oh yeah, for sure. You’ve got to listen to your body or it’ll make you listen.
muh-dawna - 10 hours ago
So I have epilepsy. Usually I can manage it just fine, but one day I had a pretty nasty seizure while I was cooking. Hit my head on a cabinet and started bleeding. I was home alone, and I’d left my phone in the other room, so I was just convulsing on the kitchen floor in a pool of my own blood. I probably would have died if my husband hadn’t come home early and gotten me to the hospital. He’d only stopped by the house to grab a change of clothes for the gym. Something totally small, but it saved my life.

LichLord83 - 9 hours ago
I survived an active shooter situation at my high school.
afrayedknot - 9 hours ago
Holy shit. That’s terrifying. I’m so sorry you had to go through that.

Plastic-Heartache-61 - 9 hours ago
Uhh my man, you gonna leave us hanging like that? What happened?
—LichLord83 - 9 hours ago
Some guy with an assault rifle got in and we went into lockdown. Two people were shot. Our teacher made us push the desks against the door and hunker down by the wall. I was close enough to the door to see the guy’s shadow, but he didn’t come in our classroom. The police eventually showed up and took the guy down.
——Plastic-Heartache-61 - 9 hours ago
Goddamn. How many people did he kill? 
———LichLord83 - 9 hours ago
I’m sorry but I don’t feel like talking about this anymore. I thought I’d be okay bringing it up again but I guess not.
————Plastic-Heartache-61 - 9 hours ago
Fair enough my dude.
mary-o-nette - 8 hours ago
No one’s going to believe this, but here goes....

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