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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #15 on: April 21, 2007, 03:11:31 PM »
I get regular asthma (I think) attacks which are pretty damned scary.
The first time it happened, I thought I was choking. Since then, I've
learned to ride them out, usually trying to breathe. There was one
time when I felt I had a clear option to die though. I was calm, and
wish I had taken it. Was pretty upset afterwards, at my choice.

Fire is bad shit. My psycho ex had her place burn down. Pretty much
a total loss. The only good thing was she didn't own much.

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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #16 on: April 22, 2007, 07:55:46 AM »
Before I posted earlier I wrote out thousand-dorw essays describing a few of the more impacting things I've seen. Actually three different ones, each with a little different interpretation of which events, or grouping of events, affected me more. I deleted them, because I think they gave too much detail in some areas. I will try again, later.

I don't even know if I posted about the "hi...you knew my father" email I got, but that old story is beginning to bug me, more than the others.















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Jimi Hendrix: When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. 

Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

The end result of life's daily pain and suffering, trials and failures, tears and laughter, readings and listenings is an accumulation of wisdom in its purest form.

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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #17 on: April 22, 2007, 09:50:00 AM »
dirt dawg, now i am intrigued...post these stories soon please :)

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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #18 on: April 22, 2007, 12:11:24 PM »
dirt dawg, now i am intrigued...post these stories soon please :)

I wasn't satisfied with my first attempts and I deleted them, but I will try again.

It's just a bunch of dead people, again, anyway.
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Ghandi: Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #19 on: April 22, 2007, 01:04:05 PM »
I don't remember you posting anything about a "hi, you knew my father" email.

*is curious*
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #20 on: April 27, 2007, 09:11:21 PM »
I got my foot snagged on an obstruction and fell into a channel from a pier once when I was, oh, 5 or 6, I think. This was early spring, so the water in the channel was running pretty rapidly and I was dragged along for a little bit. I couldn't swim and the water was freezing cold. My dad had to dive in and rescue me. Both he and I nearly froze to death afterwards because the water was so cold.

I recall being pretty oblivious to the fact that I could have drowned afterwards, I think. Comes with the territory when you're only 5 years old, I guess.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #21 on: April 28, 2007, 03:22:15 AM »
i once got almost hit by a car. once i got almost hit by a bus. do those count? :P
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #22 on: April 28, 2007, 06:20:46 AM »
i once got almost hit by a car. once i got almost hit by a bus. do those count? :P
there i was , waiting at the bus stop.  and the bus never stopped.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #23 on: April 28, 2007, 07:37:46 AM »
After the seizure caused by ECT the brain flatlines on the EEG for a few seconds. Guess that's like being brain-dead. I found this out after I had it eight times, the bastards.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #24 on: April 28, 2007, 07:40:33 AM »
After the seizure caused by ECT the brain flatlines on the EEG for a few seconds. Guess that's like being brain-dead. I found this out after I had it eight times, the bastards.

What's ECT?
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #25 on: April 28, 2007, 07:51:07 AM »
Electro-convulsive therapy. Some people know it as shock treatment.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #26 on: April 28, 2007, 07:52:46 AM »
why did you have shock treatment eight times?
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #27 on: April 28, 2007, 08:00:30 AM »
I was really depressed and none of the anti-depressants were working at the time. I agreed to the ECT beacause I hoped it would render me brain-dead for good. I felt I had nothing to lose.
BTW, I am not so glum now.
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #28 on: April 28, 2007, 08:03:45 AM »
I was really depressed and none of the anti-depressants were working at the time. I agreed to the ECT beacause I hoped it would render me brain-dead for good. I felt I had nothing to lose.
BTW, I am not so glum now.

was this done at a hospital.

or in someones basement?
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Re: brushes with death.
« Reply #29 on: April 28, 2007, 08:10:42 AM »
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It was done at a hospital. I spent three months there. I tried to escape once but the cops found me and brought me back.
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