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I got bored at work today and decided started researching some really cool near death experience stories. Anyone on here have any stories that they have experienced or heard? Just thought it would be an interesting topic...

I heard one about a killer whale attacking his trainer/handler at a Sea World, other then that I have nothing...

I was at the Christmas Eve game last season....

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I see Christy having one in the very near future.......

It's okay, I had one during the Raiders game not too long ago. <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

I was up at Hinkley Hills with my parents and friends when I was near 12 (I think that's what they're called). We were walking around the cliffs and climbing little stuff. I walked to the edge of one to look down, maybe 75 feet. Just as I looked over, the gravel underneath my feet started to give way. I kind of threw myself down on my back to grab something...and I got my hand in a crack. My uncle was standing right there and pulled me away from danger. There was a good chance I would have bit it that day had I not stopped myself from falling.

If I had said, "Hey check this out!", I wouldn't be here. Death is usually followed by that statement. <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Maybe she could write about it as it happens...that would be great

That's funny, I always thought it followed the statement "Hey! Look what I can do!!!"

if you have the patience, this one is really cool...

http://bibleprobe.com/angiefenimore.htm

Back in October, I was heading into work at about 6am (hour drive). It was foggy and the back road that I drive down is notorious for deer crossing the road. I wasn't speeding (30-40 mph..fog wasn't that bad) when a dog, which I thought was a deer, jumped out in front of me. I slammed on the brakes to avoid it (never do that again) and lost control of the car (2006 Cobalt). I swerved to the left just missing a HUGE telephone pole, then swerved back to the right sliding (drivers side door first) into a telephone pole. Luckily, my door couldn't open because I snapped the telephone pole in half & electical wires were dangling where I would've gotten out of the car. Had I kept going instead of hitting that pole. I would've hit a group of 4-5 HUGE trees. Ribs still hurt a month & a half later.

A lady, who owned the property that I crashed on, came out of her house worried about her electric fence & if her cows were going to get out. I asked her about the dog to which she "claimed" it was a neighbors only for me to find out that it may be hers and she lied. Oh well, if I ever see that dog again... <img src="/images/graemlins/naughtydevil.gif" alt="" />

I don't really want to go into details,but I've had a "near death experience" and seen a few others first hand.

One thing I will say about a couple that I saw. Athiests start praying. For some reason it seems that when death approaches,hope in a supreme being comes to the forefront.

I know in my experience,I was praying,as well as the other two cases I witnessed. The difference is that I believed in God before my near death experience. While the other two believed in him from that day forward.

But they lived and now they believe.

And there I was.......standing in the bed of a 1967 red/ rust ford pick-up truck, wadding thru the beer cans, just than we turned off the counties only paved road..... <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Sorry had to say that....

Whipps Ledges. Fun place.

I had one too many beers tailgating and in the stadium on opening day vs. the Saints this year. Passed out in my seat, someone woke me, told me I was missing something, I kinda slept-walked down the stairs at the stadium, tripped on the final stair, and hit the back of my head against the plexiglass corner above the steps. Bled like crazy, luckily my grilfriend (who's a nurse), and two random fans, (one a doctor and one a Marine paramedic who just happened to be sitting there) kept me from hemorraging and going into shock I had to be taken out on a stretcher, rushed to Metro, blah, blah, blah. Kinda one of those "unproud" and incredibly regretful moments we all have in life. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Both Browns games i've ever went to. We've been out scored 71-0. Lets say I'm not going again for a very long time. I think thats close enough to death as I need to go.

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I almost forgot about this other time I missed getting hit by a bus. I was walking down the sidewalk on my way to work in Chicago. The train entrance was on the other side of the street. I just kinda started walking into the street at the same time I turned my head, figuring nothing would be within a few feet of the curb.....I was wrong. The second my head turned, a bus flies by me going 20-25 MPH, right at the curb (since a stop was up ahead 40 feet). The mirror missed my head by inches. Had I stepped into the street, which was my plan, I would have been liquified.

That makes two for me.

Boy, you sound like a fun date.

Yeah, I'm a real prize. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I was in Cancun for Spring Break in 1995 - we were drunk on the beach and decided to go swimming - although there were flags out for an extreme undertow warning. I went out fairly far - past where the waves break - then started to come back in. That was the hard part. Trying to swim in with waves crashing over your head - and getting pulled to the side and back by the undertow. It felt as if I was swimming against a jet of water. I eventually made it to shore and yacked from exhaustion - took a long time to catch my breath.

I suppose its not too bad of a story, but you hear of people dying that way quite frequently.

The best book I have ever read about near death experiences was a book called "90 Minutes in Heaven" by someone with the last name of Piper.

He was essentially hit by a semi on a bridge, presumed dead for about an hour and so on. It is an amazing story!

My personal near death experience (actually I've had 2 and both were on airplanes):

I was leaving Columbus to fly to Philly. We took off pointing west and were over dowtown turning around to go back east. I had dosed off. I was woken up by the smoke detectors on the plane blaring in my ears. I open my eyes to see the cabin full of smoke. The flight crew stayed cool under pressure and announced that we were going to land back at C-bus. They asked us to assume the crash position (head between knees, etc. The lady in the aisle with me asked if she could hold my hand.

I said yes and be both started reciting the "Hail Mary" over and over and over again. We finally landed. It seemed like it took 12 hours, but it was less than 5 minutes. Anyway, we found out some non-essential wiring shorted out (it was the back up wiring to heating/cooling or something like that).

Anyway, they got us a new plane and gave us freeze booze when we reboarded.

The second was when I was coming in for a landing in Pittsburgh and as we landed I heard a "kerchunk" coming from the engine. I looked out my window to the engine and saw that the jet engine was NOT moving like it should have been. I was supposed to continue on, on that plane to Philadelphia (different flight from the first one I mentioned). Thank God the engine failed AFTER we landed.

But here I am to tell the tale of the two flights. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Well I insulted Michelle in this thread once and.... <img src="/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />

idk maby 4 years ago...

i was going down the road and was in the back seat behind the pasenger seat...did not have a seat belt on... tired and we were going down the road at 40 mph... i was leaning against the door like my whole body weight and my face looking outside right against the glass. im messing around with the door opener but didn't know it, i was pulling on it and back and on it and back and finally it opened it a little (it was unlocked) and my head moved to the right and i almost fell out but i basically shifted my body to the left..

ever since that day i wear a seat belt and make sure the door im at is locked at all times in the car

Better a near death experience than a near life experience (for all of you that don't have a life).

I don't know if it's a near death experience, but I almost froze to death on a hiking trip. It's not like I was "near death", but I was worried I was going to lose the tip of my nose.

You both forgot the sentence that precedes each of yours.

"Here, hold my beer and watch this", or "Here, hold my beer and look what I can do".

i had a couple the year i was in iraq. but the one that sticks out most is one morning i was walking to our battalion ops center, a random morter attack one round landed mabey 20 meters away from me. no cover or anything and the round wasnt a dud. but for some reason i just picked a few rocks outa my skin. not a single piece of shrapnel hit me. another soldier nearby got a little bit in his sholder. that musta been one really old smaller round or something

There is a great series on the discovery channel called "I Shouldn't Be Alive".

It's all first hand account of people who made it through near death situations. If you are into that kind of stuff, I reccomend it.

I am actually a little more interested in the actual spiritual aspect of it. For instance, when people were pronounced dead, what did they see? Did they have outer body experiences? That stuff is so fascinating to me.

My wedding day...Ooops sorry honey...

The day I got buried alive...for real..and thats all i have to say....And beleive in something....

I second this...

Has anyone been with anyone dying, where the dying person is seeing relatives (and speaking aloud), or has this just happened to me...twice.

A really close family friend of mine died recently. He had a heart attack but didn't realise and only went to the Doctors a week later. He was in hospital for about a month and had 4 cardiac arrests (sp!) but kept coming back.

The consultant called us all into the room and basically said he is not coming out of hospital alive as his heart was so weak. So we all had a chance to go and say our goodbyes. When I went in I held his hand and told him not to worry about his wife and children as I would look after them and he looked at me and pointed to the corner of the ceiling and said 'look' he was obviously seeing something that I could not see. We all look back and are curious as to what/who he was pointing to and what he could see .......