What's the closest you have been to death?

[ColinBellsjockstrap]

As per thread title.

In my youth, when I was about nineteen, myself and a few mates were messing about in an old quarry near Hyde.

There was a stone wall about fifteen metres high and for a dare I decided to try and climb it.

The first few metres were easy enough, but when I got three quarters of the way up, hand holes were few and far between, so I decided to do the sensible thing and go back down.

I looked down to the bottom, and froze in terror, one slip and I would have broken every bone in my body on the rocks below

I was petrified.

Eventually after about an hour I made it down to the bottom in a cold sweat.

I still think about how stupid I was even today.

Rock climbers must be crazy.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

Well, I was in this car park in Istanbul and ...

 

[citytill1die84]

I got stabbed, the knife was centimeters from hitting my heart :(

 

[stonerblue]

Was 'dead' before i was born. Blue baby.

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

I got stabbed, the knife was centimeters from hitting my heart :(

Shouldn't that be a smiley face at the end there :)

 

[MCFC Wirral]

Bowel cancer diagnosis at 42. An emergency operation got it all out and stopped it spreading.

 

[citytill1die84]

Shouldn't that be a smiley face at the end there :)

Haha very true

 

[BlueHammer85]

Got lost on top of the Brecon Beacons - team of us got lost. the weather changed in a instant, couldn't see a thing, rain, freezing cold, clouds made it so dark to see - i slipped and nearly went down a sheer drop which would have killed me - we somehow made it back down and back to the cars - everyone was totally numb and in shock, no one spoke for hours.

 

[Scottyboi]

Nearly got crushed by a metal girder whilst fitting it, some moron moved it and it flipped over with me just below it getting in position to guide it in. Legs went to jelly I was lucky as fuck, wanted to claw hammer the ****.

 

[staffsblue]

About the time of the Manchester IRA bombing, a similar attack was attempted in Leeds.
I was on my train to work passing a signalling cabinet just outside Leeds station at exactly the time the bomb was meant to detonate. Thankfully it failed to detonate, just creating a small bang and loads of smoke. Obviously, on arrival, everyone at the station was evacuated, and the exclusion zone in the city centre got further out in the following minutes.
I ended up being evacuated to the spectator area of Leeds International Pool before catching a bus home when it became clear the city centre wouldn't open anytime soon.