those who've been through that or an accidntal drowning but lived, how freakin scary was it,did U C HEAVEN?
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On two separate occasions, my heart and breathing stopped and I was essentially dead until resuscitated with CPR.\n\nI did not see any afterlife.
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To take my daughter off life support. I found her in bed not breathing...and took her to the ER. They tried for 45 minutes to resucitate(sp) her. And they did. BUt by then her brain had gone without oxygen for so long, she was brain dead. We kept her on machines for 5 days till it became apparent there was nothing that could be done. SO we took her off of life support. SHe died in my arms. It was a hard decision, but I know it was the right one to make.
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Not at all.  A very close friend of mine who I know is not crazy told me an angel saved him from drowning when he was a child.  \n\nI also witnessed a child become frightened to death after seeing a "doggie" ouside her bedroom window (which happened to be on the second floor).\nShe gave a very detailed description of what she saw and would not sleep in her room that night.  Could it have been her imagination?  Maybe.  I believe that she saw a demon of some kind.\n\nThe spiritual realm is very real and is interacting with us daily.  Children are more capable of seeing things because their minds aren't tainted like adults minds are.
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Save a stranger's life , I was driving  out of the city, like at 2 am in the morning , in the middle of nowhere , i was heading out to a remote resort and i saw a car crash , most people in my country would have thought it was a set up for being robbed, but i don't know why i stooped , and i saw the driver badly hurt , pull him out of the car , start talking to him , drove him to nearest town , there was a health station only , no clinic no hospital, but that was the only thing available for miles and he even got a blood transfusion from me , after we was stable, , drove him back to a clinic in the city , talked to the police after wards for like 2 hours , never made it to my weekend getaway,\n2 days later i talked with the guy and his family  and told me that the doctors said he would not had made it if i had not pick him up, later they invited to their church for some sort of ceremony , which i decline , they were really religious type , and i represented everything they hated on a sinner , so after a while this guy tried to save me from my life as a payback for what i did for him \nSo it was amazing, saving someone that by definition thinks all gay people should go to hell, and now my blood gay blood is ruining trough his veins ,  but despite of who he was i can't help to feel like whoaaa
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I had an out of body experience.  I floated above my body and watched my friends try to wake me up.  They were yelling at me to breathe and I was alright after a short time.  When I came down, I realized what a low existence we live in.  Reality is a very low existence.  It's hard to put in words.....)(
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Yes and it was the scariest thing ever!  My heart started beating faster and faster and faster.  All color drained from my face.  I honestly thought I was going to die!  It stopped on its own but scared the heck out of everyone around me.  I went and had an EKG, everything was normal.
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yep, I have. I've gotten into the bathtub trying to drown my sorrows and cried and put my head under the water. I wasn't trying to commit suicide, just having a good cry and dunked my head under the water.
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Yeah they do freak me out, but not a lot.\n\nLiving in s. florida and having been hit by Hurrican Wilma what REALLY freaks me out is when a hurricane is headed this way. I start shaking all over now. We got hit hard and it blew roofs off here. So I am freaked out mostly by the possibility of dying.
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When I was eight years old I almost drowned. My uncle tried to teach me how to swim in the deep end.He picked me up and threw me into the water. I fell straight to the bottom. All I remember is looking up at the surface and thinking what happened, and how long do I have to stay here. Then I blanked out. My mom said it was the scariest 3 minutes of her life. When the lifeguard rescued me I was blue and not breathing. Fortinately he knew mouth to mouth. That was my first KISS!!
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One held me down when I was 15 in my grandmothers house that we moved into after she died. It happened after I took off layers of old wallpaper and put carpet over the old linoleum floor. I took a nap after school one day and my mom called to me that dinner was ready. I could not get up nor answer her. A force held me down on the bed and would not let me speak...it scared the crap out of me. My niece and her boyfriend just had an experience while staying in the same room during a visit last November. \nTwo infants died in that room at birth and one uncle died in the house in his twenties from a lung problem. This was in the 1930's--it is an old house.
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I've witnessed a couple murders.  One time, I was on my way to theis really hippy Pennsylvania town, but I was still on the Jersey side of the river.  I saw this man get shot, and he sat there for a while, crying.  He yelled that it burned.  The paramedics came by, but I checked up on him in the news, and he died.  I've seen a lot of horrible things, and I've lived in a lot of horrible places.  What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, or more animalistic.
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True Story: \n\nI was in the basement f'ing around with a television I got out of a dumpster when I literally electrocuted myself. I fell to the ground and could not move. \n\nI prayed to God that my wife upstairs would come find me. \n\nI heard footsteps upstairs... She was headed to the basement door! I could see her shadow approaching it.\n\nI started to thank God for answering my prayer when my wife said: "No wonder it's so cold up here! Shut the God Damn Door!" and she slammed it shut.\n\nAnd I continued to lay there.
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Hi Cobb! What a story you have. I'm glad you're ok now and that you have strong faith. I've never had a near death experience. I thank God all the time for the life I have.    Take care,   Sincerely
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once i was suffering from very temperature, around 106-7 odd degrees. i could remember that i went senseless. then at the next moment i saw, my mother, who was sitting beside me and crying, and didnot know what to do. our driver had a red water bucket adn he was splashing water on to my head. and then i realised i saw myself too.\n\nthen i regained conciousness.\n\ngosh!! it still gives me goose pimples. all this i saw from from the corner of the roof.\n\nif you happen to get hold of it, please read light after death by allen brynson
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They were the worst for me.  I was awkward and the kids were really cruel.  I felt so alone. I thought about killing myself sometimes because I did not think it would end.  Now I wish I could go back and hold my own hand.  I think of that poem, Persephone.\n\n"My dear, my dear, it's not so dreadful here."
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Obviously, I wouldn't be able to give you a firsthand account, but my mother died last autumn from cancer. I was with her the last 3 weeks of her life day and night and I can tell you what it was like when she died. \nWhen my mother was released from hospital to be able to die at home she got better for nearly two weeks, eating a bit more every day, feeling better and stronger and being able to enjoy a beautiful time with her family. \nSome three days before her death she started being in pain especially at night. The first night we did not have efficient painkillers and it was terrible. She suffered very much. We luckily were getting in touch with a hospice service next day and she was supplied with a little pump that would release morphine into her bloodstream on demand when she needed it. I do not believe she could have died at home otherwise, the pain was very bad and watching her suffer was nearly impossible. With the pump she felt fine. I do not believe she was more than uncomfortable until she finally died. \nThat first night of pain her breathing changed. It became shallower and louder, as if she could not get enough breath. It was a bit hacking and irregular. It staid like this until her death three days later. She did not seem in pain or terribly inconvenienced by it and did not complain of not having enough air. \nThe last day of her life her legs were filling with water, she was swelling up from her toes to her hips. Again, this did not seem to cause discomfort. It is quite typlical when you die. \nThe evening of the beginning of her death her breathing got more laboured and she asked us to help her sit up straight and pull her arms up front so she could breathe more deeply - at that point she felt a shortage of breath. \nShe wasn't in any pain and was awake til her brother and my older sister came to see her, we had called them in the morning to call them to her deathbed. After she had seen them and said hello and goodbye, she lost consciousness at aroun d 10 pm and never regained it til she died at 10 am. \nThe dying itself was terrible but I believe mostly for us, not for her. Even though her body was destroyed by cancer it did not want to give up and her heart remained strong and just kept on beating. Her breathing was hard and would occasionaly stop but always start again. 11 hours after she lost consciousness did her heartbeat finally get weaker and her blood pressure dropped. Slowly her body temperature sank  and then she finally died. \nShe had not been alone at any point in the last three days of her life and after talking with all the others that were around in that time (half of my family are doctors and nurses) her death was as quiet and peaceful as you can hope for. \nI am sorry if this is not assuring, but it didn't feel terrible either. \nI wish you and your mother all the best
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Having been in the stuff while my more experienced friends stood around and laughed, I can tell you -\n\nYou won't drown.  Its just like water, only thicker.  It doesn't "suck you down".  Stay calm and swim out slow motion.