24 Shocking “Last Thoughts” From People Who Nearly Died
What people thought during their near death experiences
Published 3 years ago in Feels
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“Of course, this would f*cking happen.” Choking on lots of blood after a vein in my throat was cut and burst after surgery. They were panicking because no surgeons were there to seal it. -u/maloneranger https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/txaz5b/people_who_have_came_close_to_death_what_was_your/
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I was having a heart issue/medication complication which I would find out at the hospital later. I could feel my heart pounding out of my chest but I kept getting weaker and weaker. I fell to my knees and pulled out my phone to dial 911.I kept thinking “is this really happening? F*ck, this is really happening.”
4
A streetlight fell on the roof of my car after I skidded off an exit ramp and hit it head-on. I didn’t realize that they are intentionally constructed to be lightweight and hollow for instances such as this - I don’t run into lampposts much. My thought as I saw it slowly tilt forward until it came down on my car was literally “Well, I guess I’m going to die”. Then I just waited to for it happen. I didn’t have much time to process anything else. I was relieved when it merely dented my roof and unceremoniously rolled off my car and landed in the grass beside me.
5
I was on a commercial jet that caught fire during takeoff. The cabin filled with smoke, the pilot didn't say a word, and the plane suddenly pitched forward as if we were going to nosedive in. I was weirdly calm and just thought "Wow, I'm going to find out what it's like to die in an airplane crash."
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Mine was that in the moment I thought I knew I was going to die, that ..nothing really mattered aside from my kids being taken care of. Debt, owed and owing, things I hadn't done, places I hadn't seen, none of that mattered. For that short time, it was an incredibly freeing experience, until I realized I was going to make it. Then it also slowly crept back in, the stress, the weight of it all. But I learned at that point, that really, very little in life actually matters, in a good way.
15
I just felt really tired and was confused about why the doctor was yelling at me to look at him and breathe. He was just figuring out that they’d jabbed an artery during my hysterectomy while I was in the recovery unit post-op. Everything just felt cold and my vision was going dark, but that was because of the tremendous amount of blood I’d lost. I didn’t see any bright lights or god, but I also didn’t see any fire and brimstone either.
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I recently fell twenty-three feet onto rocks. I was climbing a lighthouse built in the 1700’s and was being a little more reckless than I should have when I decided to climb the staircase leading to the top. The stairs could support my weight, but the roof collapsed, dropping me down and collapsing on top of me. As the stairs detached from the ceiling, my “last” thought was “well this is a stupid f*cking way to die.”
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"I'm going to die and I'm not even going to take the deer with me."They tell you not to swerve when an animal jumps in front of your car and it's better to just hit it, but it's a really hard thing to follow.As a fun bonus, insurance covers you hitting an animal, as it's a moving object, but not the freeway divider you slammed into while avoiding the deer.
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