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Have you experienced a “life and death” situation?

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Koeshi:
When I was 17 me and my friends were camping in the lakes, and found a tree growing out over the water from the top of a small cliff and had a rope hanging from it.  So naturally I had to jump with it :)  Let go of the rope too late causing my head to flick back, missed the rock face by a couple of inches at the most.  Friends all thought I was dead cos the shape of the cliff meant they couldn't see me after I was past the outcrop I nearly hit my head on.  No need for priest, and we couldn't have called one anyways.

Also ended up in A&E a 3 times for a cracked skull when I was younger, but I don't remember those.  In my family a priest wouldn't be called until the doctors gave up.

rostheferret:
I've been thinking about this, and the closest I came up with was a time I went sailing when I was about 12. It was a 16ft 49er iirc which we ended up pushing a little too hard and we capsized with speed. Natural reaction when the boat is beyond a 60 degree angle is to jump like in all the films, diving into the water in a flamboyant style. Nobody told me to resist this urge and I ended up trapped under the mainsail, the waves creating a battle between the buoyancy jacket - compulsory equipment for renting a boat - and the sail. Fucking jacket nearly killed me, without it I would have ended up just diving into the water and y'know, swimming away from the fucking mainsail. My dad realised what had happened and pulled me out.

I mean, except for that it's just even more pathetic stuff like bartering with a knife wielding crackhead and drunkenly getting into fights with Russians much bigger than me. You don't know pain until you're hit in the face with a woman's bag after she's put bricks in it and stabbed you in the crotch with her stiletto. I'll take all the punches to the face a man can deal, just put the stiletto down...

TiYlER:
I nearly drowned in my friend's pool back in third grade. I remember looking up and seeing my friend sitting there smiling. He did eventually pull me up once he realized that I wasn't kidding and was actually drowning.

A little later I almost drowned in the ocean.

As for the priest thing: no, there were no priests called.

buchno:
^ How did you make out that he was smiling?
...or were you still above the surface?

TiYlER:

--- Quote from: buchno on May 26, 2012, 04:52:54 PM ---^ How did you make out that he was smiling?
...or were you still above the surface?

--- End quote ---

I was definitely below the surface, but I swear I remember him smiling. That or my memory has faded over the last 8 years.

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