How many times in your life have you almost died?

You crazy son of a b**ch

1. Born with a hole in my stomach, doctors gave me 50/50 chance of surviving with surgery.

2. Almost committed suicide 2-3 times in high school

3. Surgery again for my stomach problem at 20.

4. Almost got hit by a car while running a month ago or so.

Attempted suicide once. Made another half-a$$ed attempt later. It runs in the family. My brother "succeeded".

Had a heart attack at a relatively young age (55) - while running of course. Was back to running in a week (with angina) and did 20+ workouts in the 7 weeks before my triple bypass. My first cardiologist told me frequently that I was lucky to be alive. I fired him and got a cardiologist that was ok with me running.

Landed on my head on concrete a couple of times.

Once was up on a mountain ridge in the dark and with only peripheral vision (due to UV - at altitude all day without sunglasses). Kept on the trail because there were more leaves off the trail and they would crunch if I stepped on them.

I find the misspellings entertaining. I'd like to see someone "rap" their car around a tree.

I run wrote:

Ran over 30 miles this week

LOL! Crazy dangerous, that!

Multiple times, almost all run related

1. When I was 3 or 4 I drowned in a bath tub was dead for almost 30minuntes

2. In 9th grade a erson accidently hit my in head with a track baton.

3. Had an oak tree branch fall on head while running in 10th grade.

4. Feel down a cliff edge while on a run with my team in 11th grade, few more feet would have fallen of a water fall.

5 in 12th grade i almost hit by a golf ball while running on local golf course, I felt it go over my head.

6. 2nd year of college was passenger in mini van hit by tractor trailer going 65 mph

7. Had a few mini heart attacks while running between 2009 and 2012 luckly they have stoped.

I'm lucky to be alive after all that

Almost drowned in a pool as a child/toddler before I learned how to swim, my aunt saw me fall in and pulled me out.

When I was in second grade I ended up with a wild baboon in a car with me on a trip to Africa, definitely thought it would attack me.

I've ridden in cars with a drunk driver probably over 50 times. No noticeably close calls that I can remember, though. Thankfully I've grown out of this stage of my life.

I've never really had that quintessential I'm gonna die moment.

1)As a toddler, (living on a farm)tried to drink some kool-aid, turned out to be kerosene.....forced vomiting

reduced my brain damage

2)had a ruptured appendix in elementary school

3)just missed getting broadsided by an oncoming semi-truck

(driver dozing, drove thru a red light/intersection)

4)almost road my carbon bike in front of a car coming up behind me.

1) Was in a car that was hit by lightning at age 5.

2) Run over by a car at 13.

3) Pneumonia in grad school that took a week in the hospital on massive drugs to stop from killing me.

4) Three guys tried to knife me while I was training in grad school. I out-ran them.

5) Took codeine cough syrup and didn't know I was allergic to it as I'd never had it before. Managed to swallow 2 Benedryl before I passed out. I lay on the floor for about 8 hours.

6) Competed in the (swim) race around Manhattan in 2006 and got a jellyfish sting that triggered an allergic reaction.

7) Almost bled out last August when a blood vessel in my stomach ruptured. Collapsed late at in night in a parking garage with no one around and lay there for 30 minutes until I managed to move enough to get me cell phone.

8) Told my wife that she did, in fact, look like she had a fat butt in her favorite pair of jeans.

I worked for Fed Ex in the 90's and was on a plaine to Moscow and we crashed. There was a vicious storm everyone in the plain died accept myself. I washed up on a remote island in the middle of nowhere and survived for 34 long years. The only friend I had to keep me sane was Wilson a volleyball. I finally made it away from the island and was rescued to return home to find out my fiancee was screwing my denitist Dr. Spaulding. This is and will be the closest experience to death I have ever had.

most of these answers are just dangerous situations where you might die if you don't take sensible action to avoid it. I don't think that's almost dying, just mortal danger.

Almost dying should be where you're probably gonna die, but then you don't.

For example, I've been held at gunpoint, but I didn't almost die.

No. 1-7, mild. No. 8, on the other hand, off the charts. ;)

Every time I wake up the day after a party and see my wife.

1) In 2008 at work a load shifted and I fell 50 ft down an open elevator shaft landing head first. I was in a coma for a week and had a nine hour surgery where the doctors pulled the front of my skull off to be able to work on my facial reconstruction. I'm now graced with 13 plates and 50 screw holding my face together.

2) In 2009 I suffered grand maul seizures from the scar tissue on my brain

3) 2010 I had my 2nd best running season highlighted with a 1:24 half and a 3:07 marathon(slowed by stomach issues) at age 42.

May 23rd 1960. The tsunami at Hilo, Hawai'i almost got me. I was, as a idiot 16 year old, where I shouldn't have been.

Both running related:

1) A discus flew about 2 ft over my head when I was 14. Hearing that whiz by will shock the system pretty good.

2)2 years ago, on a run: Some a$$hole going 35mph really blew a red light as I was crossing (my light was green at this point). I saw him at the last second, jumped up and actually pushed off of the hood of his old Mercury Cougar, did kind of a spin but landed on my feet. I was completely fine though, if I was another step in front of him, I'm positive I'd be dead. He hit another car and high tailed it out of there. The car that was hit drove away too, who knows why. No one seemed to care about me either. Everyone carried on as nothing happened. Very weird.

When I was an infant I had meningitis. Then I had chicken pox (still as an infant). I was hospitalized for both. Somehow I made it out fine.

When I was four, I was swimming at the local pool. I was a very good swimmer. I had my hair in a ponytail. This girl nearby was a very poor swimmer who was in the deep-end for reasons unbeknownst to me. She pulled on my ponytail until I was under the water so she could stay afloat. She kept pulling and pulling. I was underwater and couldn't get up. I was drowning. The lifeguard didn't notice.

My friend's mom jumped into the pool fully clothed, swam over, and pulled me up.

For some reason it didn't scar me. I went on to become a competitive swimmer for eleven years.

spiderman wrote:

2)2 years ago, on a run: Some a$$hole going 35mph really blew a red light as I was crossing (my light was green at this point). I saw him at the last second, jumped up and actually pushed off of the hood of his old Mercury Cougar, did kind of a spin but landed on my feet. I was completely fine though, if I was another step in front of him, I'm positive I'd be dead. He hit another car and high tailed it out of there. The car that was hit drove away too, who knows why. No one seemed to care about me either. Everyone carried on as nothing happened. Very weird.

Nice move on your part. I got hit by a car once on a run. It was going pretty slowly, but the idiot decided to accelerate right into me on a right turn while I was crossing a crosswalk in a traffic circle (if anyone goes to Maryland, this is the traffic circle that exits the big parking lot where the track is). I knew he was going to hit me no matter what so I just flung out my arm and did this weird push-off thing, since I knew my shoulders were hyperflexible and it wouldn't hurt too much. It hurt but I was OK. The thing that pisses me off is that the guy opened his window, waved at me, and then drove away. So he acknowledged he hit me but didn't even bother to stop for a minute to make sure I was OK.

I have 10 notable occurrences:

1. When I got married.

2. When I visited Lets Run and saw Rudisha broke the WR.

3. Almost got blown up at the Boston Marathon.

4. Struck by lightning.

5. Attacked by 2 great whites when I was free diving.

6. Plane crash into the Florida everglades.

7. Got bit by a Taipan snake when I was a baby.

8. Parashoot didn't open one time sky diving but the backup saved me.

9. Shot 6 times by a gangbanger when I was leaving a club.

10. Spent 5 days in a crevasse in Mt. Rainier.

Once.

Mountain climbing. 13,000 feet. I was on the final summit ridge,

I slipped on loose rock. Rolled to the edge of a cliff. Next stop was 3,000 feet down.

Rock stopped moving. I crawled back up onto the summit ridge. I continued climbing.