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Offline McGiver

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brushes with death.
« on: April 21, 2007, 06:25:28 AM »
does anybody have any good stories to share?

i want actual brushes with death.  stories of seeing someone die or seeing a dead person.
close calls.  or even, i should have been on that train that jumped the track stories.

please share, i am curious.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2007, 07:11:14 AM »
When I went with my parents to Germany many years ago there was a terrible traffic accident, but we actually didn't see what happened to the people in the cars, though they must almost certainly have been killed. We were driving through Denmark, where people drive very fast. The speed limit was 130 kmph/80mph, but many people drove much faster. One car in our lane was trying to pass another car and had a frontal collision with another car that came from the opposite direction. The car trying to pass was smashed so that the front was half way through the coupé, so that the people in the front seat must have been totally forcemeat.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2007, 07:18:10 AM »
when my grandmother on my mothers side was living in an assisted living home we used to meet up every sunday for breakfast.
one time she didn't answer her phone so i just went over.
after i let myself in i saw that her mattress had slid off of her boxspring and she fell out of bed.  her neck was trapped between a tv tray and the mattress.  she was all stiff,and if i remember correctly, she was a light bluish colour.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2007, 07:21:42 AM »
I once saw a dead alcoholic or drug addict or whatever he might have been, laying on the street, when I was in Stockholm. It was totally undramatic, though, just sad.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2007, 07:35:27 AM »
My wife was the one who found my ex after she OD'd.
The body was clearly dead, with blood pooling inside.
She called 911, and was told to try and resuscitate
the body. She refused - another person in the house
tried though. When the medics arrived, they estimated
the time of death to several hours before (actually an
impossible time, because she had been up and moving
then); but we got a big kick out of the idea of trying
to give mouth to mouth to such an obvious corpse.

I think I saw a couple of dead people on the streets,
but I never was morbid enough to really check. Could
have just been drunks, but they didn't look like they were
breathing.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2007, 07:47:05 AM »
does getting cancer count?
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #6 on: April 21, 2007, 08:27:58 AM »
I almost killed my father this afternoon, and may yet still, does that count?
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #7 on: April 21, 2007, 08:35:43 AM »
how/why did you almost kill him?
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #8 on: April 21, 2007, 08:39:30 AM »
My father has exactly the opposite capacity to deal with problems that I do.  We lost some keys, he decided to drag me, him, and 50 feet of the earth in every direction of my house strait to hell.  I went outside, got inside the car with a coat hanger, and pulled the shifter into neutral, allowing us to push the car the required 10 feet.

I really would like to kill him.  Not hurt him, just make him die, and be quiet.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #9 on: April 21, 2007, 08:44:09 AM »
lol, my dad is similar, but then to an extent so am i. hope noone kills either of us for that..
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #10 on: April 21, 2007, 08:49:28 AM »
Quote from: Nomaken on April 21, 2007, 08:39:30 AM
I really would like to kill him.  Not hurt him, just make him die, and be quiet.

I feel this way about just about anyone who annoys me.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #11 on: April 21, 2007, 09:38:57 AM »

Too many ...

Probably the single most moving, dramatic event was coming upon a housefire at night, in the central Texas area, a long way from anything civilized like a firehydrant. The fire had gotten well started and I ran in screaming my head off. It turned out that the family was already out and standing on the other side of the house, watching their dreams burn. The air was so thick with despair and other emotions that words left my mouth and just fell on the ground, without being heard. I stayed to help, but there was nothing to do. It took hours to offset the adrenaline from dashing into a burning house, in fact my heart is pounding, just remembering it, but they lost their home and it really did not matter to them. They were all safe. I just left.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #12 on: April 21, 2007, 10:19:29 AM »
Proximity to two similar fires is a big reason I've set out to remove as much attachment to material objects from my life as possible.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #13 on: April 21, 2007, 10:30:13 AM »
I had a choking fit while taking hallucunigenic mushrooms, terrifying memory
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #14 on: April 21, 2007, 02:07:31 PM »
Quote from: La_Mala on April 21, 2007, 10:30:13 AM
I had a choking fit while taking hallucunigenic mushrooms, terrifying memory

How many grams did you take ??
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