Near Death Experiences

[magpie]

has anybody escaped death and how?
for me 2
1, where i worked in london green park was the nearest tube station. on thursdays i closed the books for the week. it normally took 2/3 times to make it balance this thursday i managed in 1 go. if i had gone home at my usual time i would have walked straight onto the blast.
2, i lived in australia for about 15 yrs. one place i worked was in the blue mountains. i was travelling from home in penrith to leura i was hit in the back by a mature lady, my car was sent into the side crash barrier, bounced off and was sent over the 2 lanes going opposite. any other day i would have been crushed by a fleet of heavy transport coming down the mountain. that day it was clear. i had gripped the wheel so hard that i bent it by 20o
to balance it up i feel that once i saved the life of a very young leicester fan about to be crushed whilst me and my fellow rotherham fans were exiting filbert st. i hope that he had a good life afterwards.

[askyourgran]

Yes NDE does have a different meaning Jackdaw, when I looked at the Latest Posts I was expecting to read about 'the white light at the end of a tunnel and a beautiful garden' experience, but it turns out to be a near miss experience instead, but non the less interesting I hasten to add in case my criticism is off centre too!

[Jackdaw33]

If I had the faintest idea what you are talking about I would respond, but I don't, so I won't.

Goodnight, Master.

[Zacs-Master]

Jack, "I did not give an answer to the OP's description"
You did. At the time I stated.

[sandyRoe]

I've had 4. I must lead a charmed life. Twice I was shot at, one I was in a bar that was bombed, and once people tried to drag me into a car. Later, in the same area where the last incident happened the brother of a former schoolmate was abducted and had his throat cut.

[tinkerbell23]

Wow scary!!^^

[paddywak]

Jackdaw, if you read my post you'll see that I received the last rites,and that's as near to dying as the good catholic boy I was ever gets and my NDE was this.No light at the end of the tunnel,nobody waiting for me to help me "cross over" nothing but pain until the morphine kicked in,after that I had nearly 2 months in a coma during which I remember very little followed by several months of discomfort and pain.Believe me I know about NDE and when you're dead that's it.Funnily enough the good thing about these type of thread is that I've talked about it more since I joined AB in 2007 then I did in all the years in between the only person I've really talked about it is Trish,not even my parents or my two sisters knew what I really went through but it's easier talking to cyber friends and it's made me realise I should have done it years ago.

[Jackdaw33]

Then that was not an NDE. You were obviously very seriously ill at the time so the priest was called in as an insurance policy, so that if you had passed over you'd have been fortified by the rites of Holy Mother Church.

[sandyRoe]

Tinkerbell, my schoolmate was accused of murderous revenge for his brothers death. He was charged with beating a gay Protestant unconscious and hanging him from a fence in a quiet area of the city centre. He stood trial but was acquitted.

[paddywak]

At the time Jack it seemed pretty near to death to me,tell me have you ever had any personal experience of NDE? because though I might not have "Died" in the sense you mean I was pretty close to it.The people on ward I was on for after I came out of IC were mainly people like my self and death was a subject which was often discussed and most of us had not experienced the light in the tunnel thing,so you take your pick my own opinion is that while it's nice to believe in an afterlife it's just not going to happen.

[Jackdaw33]

Actually I have been there, though not with beatific visions. At the age of 22 I was involved in a car crash and was not expected to live. The surgeons did their best but warned my parents to prepare for the worst. My one memory is saying, "I'm going to die now", to which the ward sister replied, "Nonsense! Nobody dies on my ward, I simply won't allow it. I have far better things to do with my time than fill in unnecessary paperwork."

This was a military hospital; I may have fared worse in an NHS one.

[sandyRoe]

I worked with a chap once who had been a miner for a few months. He admitted he couldn't hack it, gave it up and joined the army.
And Thatcher called miners, the enemy within.

[magpie]

i agree i put the question wrongly i should have said close shaves thanks for all your info.

[janbee]

I survived 10 years in a miserable marriage .Does that count? I survived several meetings with Mr Savile over the years. Does that count?

[Dee Sa]

a friend of mine took his wife to A&E and they admitted her, next day she died, he got home and sat down and started thinking about funeral arrangements and who he should ring first,when all of a sudden the wife in the same red coat she had on when admitted hospital stood in the doorway he was so shocked he blurted out "what are you doing here" and she replied "they gave me the wrong tablets" and then she just disappeared. This is a sensible chap not prone to telling porkies, but he was unable to prove she had the wrong tablets given and the red coat was among her possessions he collected the next day.

[The Builder]

Plenty of close shaves, especially in my job.

Nearest thing to a near death experience was a couple of years ago when a girlfriend made me watch "Gavin & Stacey".

We didn't last ;o)

[retrocop]

Back in the 70's I had a gun pointed at me at point blank range.The perpetrator was an Argentinian anarchist called Ernesto Bacardi.He pulled the trigger and got the "dead man's click".In his panic he had forgotten to chamber a round in his self loading pistol.This was a wanted man who signed himself in as Mr Dormer in the Dormers Hotel,Sussex Square, Paddington. :-)

[michaelmph]

I had such an experience in August last year. Got up at 4am to have a leak and tripped at top of stairs, flew down into a brick wall. When my wife discovered me, I was lying in a pool of blood with blood bubbles coming out of my nose. After my wife dialled 999, I was taken by helicopter to the Royal London Hospital which is the designated centre for brain injury in my area. After 3 weeks in a coma (two of them due to the incredibly powerful drugs I was given) and a further six weeks in intensive care, I was allowed home just before my 69th birthday last November. I'm a very very lucky man to be still here and the doctors told me I was as near to death as you can be without being dead! It's like being given a second chance that you feel you maybe don't deserve and it has certainly made me even more appreciative of my wonderful wife and two children, one of whom has produced my first two grandchildren (twins) who were born on Melbourne, Oz but are now back in the UK.

[retrocop]

It certainly does make you appreciate life more plus the support of family and loved ones.Glad you made a good recovery.

[michaelmph]

Thanks Retro. I'm very lucky that I fully recovered. Hope all is going well with your course of treatment.