“The bike pummeled into the wall, and I hit the floor with force.
Warning: This post includes descriptions of violence.
Redditoru/Halloween-365asked, “How have you cheated death?”
and the responses were startling because each person’s survival from a life-threatening situation was so unique.
Here are some of the responses:
Note: Some entries have been edited for length/clarity.
“I had a screening for something else, and my doctor found very early-stage cancer at age 34.
It was removed painlessly and completely in the afternoon.
Its a cancer that usually affects people over 60 and doesnt have symptoms until its too late.
“I was on the waiting list for only six days before receiving a life-saving organ.
The waiting time is usually more than six months, and I had less than a month to live.
And now I’m writing this.”
u/abovemyleague
3.
“Congenital heart defect (WPW) completely unknown until 35 years old.
One surgery and defib install later, everything is pretty much normal with cheap meds.
Had I been driving or at home alone, that would have been it.
Those four guys don’t pay for beers ever when we go out.”
Got bounced around a bit, but otherwise okay.
I have worn my seatbelt on every car ride since that day in 2005.”
u/Dahhhkness
5.
I still have that SNES.”
u/Raemnant
7.
“I was hit by a drunk driver while I was riding my bike at 13.
If I hadn’t been wearing my helmet, I would’ve died.
The helmet was cracked all the way through on the back.
Safety equipment has never been a joke to me since.
I had NONE of them.
Shit’s scary.”
u/absentandvacant
9.
Woke up in a pool of blood and ended up with ~30 staples in the back of my head.
I showed a doctor a picture of the bathroom scene once, and he looked visibly shook."
I still have nightmares seeing the oncoming cars."
u/MedicusAthleticus
11.
“Put in a CD at a stoplight, and the stereo kept spitting it back out.
In my focus to get it to work, I didn’t see the light turn green.
The guy behind me didn’t move, even when the traffic cleared.”
“I was in a brutal car accident.
My son was 5 at the time in the back seat.
When we finally stopped, we had narrowly evaded being sandwiched between two transport trucks.
I am convinced I entered the edge of life/death as it was a surreal experience.”
u/turtle-bird
13.
“My mum’s cat saved my life.
I was sleeping on my mum’s couch after abreakup.
“My cousin and I were sitting on the back of a houseboat when we were little.
All the adults were inside, as adults did in the ’80s.
After a while, we stumbled inside instead of falling asleep at the back of the boat.
We had carbon monoxide poisoning and had to be rushed to the hospital.
Our grandpa bought a new boat motor the next day.”
u/MissMaryEli
15.
“My bio father punched my mom in the stomach nine weeks before I was due.
One very emergency C-section later, and we both made it, if not a little undercooked.”
u/BeepCheeper
16.
“Five years ago, I went tandem skydiving.
After about 30 seconds, the dude pulled the parachute, but it wasn’t opening.
They had to pick us up by car.
Save to say, I’m never going skydiving again.”
u/nothzera
18.
“No shit, there I was: Afghanistan.
Fifteen minutes ‘til midnight.
Me and another guy were standing outside on guard duty.
Two minutes after we get in, we are doing the radio checks, etc., and BOOM!
RPG hits exactly where we were standing (I’m sure they were aiming for the Humvee).
Oh what a night…”
19.
“I was riding a motorbike at 60mph (national speed limit road).
An oncoming car overtook a car on a blind bend and forced me off the road.
The bike pummeled into the wall, and I hit the floor with force.
I was walking past the kid as he was at his locker, pulling the gun.
I saw the student get tackled.
