To ask if you've ever had a near death experience and what went through your mind?

I had a chocking incident a few years ago. I was absolutely terrified. My life didn't flash before my eyes and I didn't feel calm. I hope when my time comes I'm asleep and not know anything about it.

Yes, being held up at gunpoint in Durban, the boy then opened fire.

I remember just being focused on getting away.

Amazing thread.

I was white water rafting when the raft went over in really bad rapids. I got caught in a rapid and was just going round and round under the water. I couldn’t breathe. Like you, I felt really calm and just thought “this is how I die”. Fortunately somebody managed to get me out. I had bruises all over my body. The strangest thing? I was in Austria and my parents were on holiday in the USA. At the exact time I was drowning, my dad had a dream I was drowning and woke my mum in a panic saying something was wrong with me. She calmed him down and said somebody would alert them if there was an issue. He’s the calmest person ever so this was really out of character for him.
he picked me up from the airport when I returned and when he saw my bruises he went really pale as I explained what had happened!

I had a ruptured ectopic. Lost 3l of blood.

Luckily it happened when I was in hospital as an outpatient for something else, so the nurse noticed something was wrong. Didn’t have the typical symptoms so they didn’t know quite what was happening, but a quick thinking consultant got me on a trolley and surrounded with concerned looking people.

I was kind of floaty and zen. Abstractly thinking well, I might die now. That’s a shame. I won’t know what happens next.

Absolutely no terror, just calm curiosity while they ran me down corridors. I remember the consultant slamming the lift buttons and shouting “we need the lift!” at the people coming out, and thinking it was like Casualty.

Someone was shouting “we need consent forms” and a frustrated woman was shouting “we can’t get consent!” As I was put under.

Woke up in intensive care sans a fallopian tube and with a huge stapled hole across my stomach. Was pretty bad after, but the nearly dying bit has reassured me it’ll be fine.

Sepsis. Very calm and warm and the terrible pain had gone, and it was all going to be ok because I was just going somewhere else.

Yes, a wasp flew into my mouth and stung me at the back of the throat. I’m allergic.

I was 15 mins walk from home and my husband and family were all uncontactable. 999 said it wasn’t an emergency because I could still talk and breathe (I rang them as soon as it happened).

I walked home feeling my throat closing up and luckily got home in time to force antihistamines in. I then spent the rest of the night in a&e on a steroid drip.

I nearly drowned as a child and I remember feeling extremely panicked but not just for me but for my mum too. An Angel in disguise pulled me out and then handed me to someone and went back for my mum after I told him she was drowning too. It was horrible but I’m glad I was too young to really experience sleepless nights etc. Certainly no calmness, just panic

Serenity, that is beautiful and comforting. Thank you.

Absolute terror. I was a child and drowned in a public swimming pool. Thankfully the lifeguard managed to resuscitate me.

Yes. A drowning incident whilst white water rafting. I remember completely panicking and trying to get to the surface and then total peace, calm and a slightly surprised feeling of "oh, I'm going to die". Not terrifying at all. Never felt peace like it since! Woke up being resuscitated and was told that when I lost consciousness was when my body stopped struggling and the whirlpool spat me out.

I choked on a piece of lamb.

I immediately couldn't breathe at all. I stood up and honestly thought that was the end. That's about all I thought but I did think I was dying.

My husband was with me luckily. He hit my back to try and dislodge it. After 3 failed attempts he did the heindlich manoeuvre. It dislodged it enough there was a small enough hole to let me breathe. I sat down and didn't want to move scared it would move back. It didn't...it seemed to disappear and the breathing hole.got bigger (from my recollection).

@SerenityNowInsanityLater that was oddly nice to read. Obviously not good you nearly died, but it was a reassuring read.

Car slipped on ice on the motorway and did the whole bumper car thing against the central reservation and around a lorry. Car went forwards, sidewards and backwards. Scary but oddly calm. I remember thinking I was going to die and was waiting for the final impact. I wasn't scared and no one else in the car made a sound, we were too shocked and time just went so slowly that it didn't seem fast or panicky. It was all over in seconds though.

Yes, nearly died of hypothermia. I was calm and happy, just wanted to die and was pissed of with people trying to keep me awake. I was even pissed off when the mountain rescue arrived and moved me, I didn’t want to open my eyes even but they had to get me across a river in a canoe and I really didn’t want to go!

Thanks for sharing this.
I’ve been listening to a near death experiences podcast. Many describe similar experiences.

Yes, I was on the brink of death with severe dehydration from campylobacter food poisoning once.

I felt so weak, so tired. No fight left. Honestly, dying felt like a nice option at the time.

Luckily they managed to stop my organs shutting down when I was raced in. But it took a long time to recover afterwards.

Meatymeatytimetoeaty It reminds me of a documentary I watched years and years ago about a guy, a climber I think- my memory is vague, who got trapped in a crevice or something dire. There he was all alone, facing death, stuck for good until his last breath, and in the film he's reflecting on his experience and remembers thinking at the time of his imminent death, "Fuck, I'm going to die to Daddy Cool stuck in my head!" 😆

I'm glad you're here Meaty. You made it through that incident and its aftermath, which surely must have been some hard work to overcome. ❤

I choked as a child and I was terrified. I swallowed a chicken Kiev ball whole 🤦‍♀️ I remember thinking I was going to die and being frantic with panic. Luckily my dad got it out.

The fear of choking has never left me, every single meal my children and I have, I internally panic.

It's awful but if my kids start coughing at the dinner table they say "dont worry I'm not choking" , my sister once tried to give my DD sweets in bed when she slept at hers and my DD had said "dont you need to stay with me incase I choke"

• The very last time my ex hurt me, he was strangling me and I thought I was going to die. And all I could think was, what about my babies as the black spots were getting bigger. Absolutely horrendous.

Both times I have been frantic with panic at the thought of dying.

We was doing the national speed limit and so was the car we hit head on. Not sure what the combined force was but it was a real. Mess, police drove me home past the cars and I couldn't belive no one died. No seat belts. Someone went to prison. I was absolutely fine. The person next to me had all her teeth go through to the outside her face and smash. I was lucky I rolled up I think

Has a massive haemorrhage (2.2L!!) after child born- crash call, BP in my boots, couldn't get any new lines in when current ones failed due to being shut down. I could hear it all but couldn't move or respond. But I felt very calm, not scared, aware that I was critical. Like you I just thought- oh, this is happening.

Trigger warning: domestic violence
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My ex tried to strangle me.
I remember being very calm, and thinking to myself "I can't believe I'm going to die in Skelmersdale"
Of all the things to go through my head 😂

I had a really bad choking episode on some toast a few weeks ago - I live alone and even with trying to drink something to try and help force it down, I just could not clear my airway - I very vividly remember thinking something the lines of "oh god if I don't clear this and die then I'm going to be found dead, rotting in my flat in at least a few weeks time". Obviously I managed to clear it as I'm still here to tell the tale but it was so awful and scary!

I almost bled out and started flatlining after a medical procedure. I was oddly calm while everyone around me stepped up a gear. The bleeding was stopped and I was fine. Dramatic at the time but a positive outcome (another thank you NHS).