Lifestyle

Just as there are a myriad of ways to live, there are thousands of different ways to die. Few people are able to tell us what it&#39;s like in-between, but a <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/j0hpsc/people_who_have_came_close_to_dying_what_were/?sort=top">Reddit thread</a> from people who have had near-death experiences has interesting nuggets about both death and life. People who survived major incidents and accidents share what their thoughts were in The Moment. It&#39;s dark and fascinating.1.<blockquote> I was stabbed in the neck by someone robbing my house. I totally thought I was going to die. I hate myself, but I begged the guy who stabbed me to stay because I didn&#39;t want to die alone. He said &quot;Sorry&quot; and walked away. That fucking broke my heart. Thankfully he called 911 for me. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tribdog/">tribdo</a> </blockquote>2.<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> &quot;Oh sh*t, my sister had to see me drown.&quot; I felt pretty calm about it though.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mleftpeel/">mleftpeel</a> </blockquote>3.<blockquote> &quot;Your shoe is untied.&quot; I said that to my dad before promptly falling down a 20ft cliff into the underbrush. Broken arm, fractured skull, ruptured kidney. Woke up two weeks later to my dad saying thanks for letting him know his shoe was untied as he could have tripped. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Globalmask/">Globalmask</a> </blockquote>4.<blockquote> I almost died in a fiery explosion at my old job. My first thought was &ldquo;I&rsquo;m gonna look like such an idiot without eyebrows.&rdquo; -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/theycallmedandan/">theycallmedandan</a> </blockquote>5.<blockquote> As I was getting the Heimlich I remember thinking how embarrassing it would be to die at a Renaissance Faire. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Ignaciodelsol/">Ignaciodelsol</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>6.<blockquote> My heart stopped beating for 7 seconds while I was eating dinner in my hospital bed waiting to be discharged. I realized I was going to pass out and put my arm across my plate so I wouldn&#39;t fall face-first into it. All I could think of was &quot;this is gonna make a mess.&quot; Glad they took their time with the paperwork. Ended up walking out of there 7 days later with a pacemaker at the age of 46. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ronnie5/">ronnie5</a> </blockquote>7.<blockquote> Have you ever had a headache that was so bad? I mean, like call your parents and ask them if you were still on the healthcare plan? Even though you live in Canada and they live in the USA? </blockquote><blockquote> Yes, I&#39;ve had this pain, i felt as if my head was goin to implode. I was half right. I had a brain clot. Then bleed. So a stroke and a aneurysm all at once. My last thought before I regained consciousness weeks later? I don&#39;t want to die in this sh*tty ground level apartment.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/azhiazthesky/">azhiazthesky</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>8.<blockquote> I almost died on a mountain last month, the thoughts while I was free soloing the cliff were just &quot;I would give anything to be at home safe.&quot;-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/FranklinVadge/">FranklinVadge</a> </blockquote>9.<blockquote> &#39;Sh*t, wasn&#39;t the car that hit me white?&#39; As I&#39;m looking down at a car underneath me. I&#39;d been hit hard enough I bounced up over the car that hit me and had enough air time to clear the second one. Props to the driver of the third vehicle, he must&#39;ve stood on the damned brakes the moment he saw me because he brought the cement truck to a stop before it got to me. Second time I was hit by a car as a pedestrian. I&#39;m now MUCH more careful crossing streets.. not that it&#39;s helped much, I seem to have a car magnet in my a**.. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/tashkiira/">tashkiira</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>10.<blockquote> &quot;That&#39;s it?&quot; As I looked at the surface of the water I couldn&#39;t reach.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Unleashtheducks/">Unleashtheducks</a> </blockquote>11.<blockquote> &ldquo;My throat feels weird, my gums are itchy&rdquo; and blackness like a deep sleep. Woke up a bit later, found out I was allergic to crab the hard way.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/scottawhit/">scottawhit</a> </blockquote>12.<blockquote> Was run over by a bus last year, my thought when i went under the tires was....but it&rsquo;s a Wednesday. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/peppapigs94/">peppapigs94</a> </blockquote>13.<blockquote> &ldquo;God why can&rsquo;t I breathe right now, just wish I could breathe, oh I&rsquo;m getting tired&rdquo; - anaphylactic shock, each time. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Azhreia/">Azhreia</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>14.<blockquote> I thought about how I didn&#39;t buy enough pizzas from my favorite pizza place. It&#39;s pretty good, but thinking about pizza when you think you&#39;re dying is pretty depressing in retrospect.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mundane_teacher/">mundane_teacher</a> </blockquote>15.<blockquote> Three times, once almost drowning deep end of pool at five, once trapped under flipped ATV in a river, and once being shot at by a crazy old fuck who thought I was a deer. I thought of my mom crying every time. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bombayern/">bombayern</a> </blockquote>16.<blockquote> Had a stroke last year and was taken to the ER by my brother. The last thing I remember was asking him to take a picture of me with his phone as &ldquo;I must look terrible.&rdquo; After I was admitted, I didn&rsquo;t remember anything other than dreams until late October, and days after I was admitted (when everything was a blank) they induced a coma so that my brain swelling would go down, and I was &ldquo;critical,&rdquo; so I presume I was pretty close to dying then.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/bluebirdgm/">bluebirdgm</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>17.<blockquote> I was on my deathbed and I thought, &quot;Man I wish my mother was here.&quot; When I woke up in the ICU, she wasn&#39;t, nor did she care. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Cida90K/">Cida90K</a> </blockquote>18.<blockquote> Who is holding me under water. I almost passed out. I didn&rsquo;t even know the kid.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/needanap/">needanap</a> </blockquote>19.<blockquote> As the car left the road and sailed into the trees, I was a very calm passenger. &ldquo;Oh, so this is how it ends. Interesting.&rdquo; I was at peace because everything was out of my hands, and I was just watching it happen.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SSSS_car_go/">SSSS_car_go</a> </blockquote>20.<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> At 14, I almost drowned after getting caught in the waves on a beach trip. After fighting as hard as I could (huge mistake), I was lying on the bottom in the sand. I had two thoughts: -Mom and Dad are going to be so mad -I can&rsquo;t believe that I can&rsquo;t even save myself (had recently completed a jr. life saving course, which was pool based, and didn&rsquo;t cover swimming in the ocean) What I didn&rsquo;t realize was that I had been pushed into shore by the waves and was in four feet of water at that point. My friend saw me and pulled me out. -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/usually_just_lurking/">usually_just_lurking</a> </blockquote>21.<blockquote> &quot;Well...fuck....&quot; (Car accident) -<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/IrishUpstart/">IrishUpstart</a> </blockquote>22.<div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> Mines a little different but I think it still counts. My heart completely stopped and I was technically not alive for a bit. Honestly there were no thoughts, no bright light, etc. it just felt like... nothing.-<a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ArtsyKitty/">ArtsyKitty</a> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

22 people who survived near-death experiences share what their 'final thought' was.

Just as there are a myriad of ways to live, there are thousands of different ways to die. Few people are able to tell us what it&#39;s like in-between, but a Reddit thread from people who have had near-death experiences has interesting nuggets about both death and life. People who survived major incidents and accidents share what their thoughts were in The Moment. It&#39;s dark and fascinating.1. I was stabbed in the neck by someone robbing my house. I totally thought I was going to die. I hate myself, but I begged the guy who stabbed me to stay because I didn&#39;t want to die alone. He said &quot;Sorry&quot; and walked away. That fucking broke my heart. Thankfully he called 911 for me. -tribdo 2. &quot;Oh sh*t, my sister had to see me drown.&quot; I felt pretty calm about it though.-mleftpeel 3. &quot;Your shoe is untied.&quot; I said that to my dad before promptly falling down a 20ft cliff into the underbrush. Broken arm, fractured skull, ruptured kidney. Woke up two weeks later to my dad saying thanks for letting him know his shoe was untied as he could have tripped. -Globalmask 4. I almost died in a fiery explosion at my old job. My first thought was &ldquo;I&rsquo;m gonna look like such an idiot without eyebrows.&rdquo; -theycallmedandan 5. As I was getting the Heimlich I remember thinking how embarrassing it would be to die at a Renaissance Faire. -Ignaciodelsol 6. My heart stopped beating for 7 seconds while I was eating dinner in my hospital bed waiting to be discharged. I realized I was going to pass out and put my arm across my plate so I wouldn&#39;t fall face-first into it. All I could think of was &quot;this is gonna make a mess.&quot; Glad they took their time with the paperwork. Ended up walking out of there 7 days later with a pacemaker at the age of 46. -ronnie5 7. Have you ever had a headache that was so bad? I mean, like call your parents and ask them if you were still on the healthcare plan? Even though you live in Canada and they live in the USA?  Yes, I&#39;ve had this pain, i felt as if my head was goin to implode. I was half right. I had a brain clot. Then bleed. So a stroke and a aneurysm all at once. My last thought before I regained consciousness weeks later? I don&#39;t want to die in this sh*tty ground level apartment.-azhiazthesky 8. I almost died on a mountain last month, the thoughts while I was free soloing the cliff were just &quot;I would give anything to be at home safe.&quot;-FranklinVadge 9. &#39;Sh*t, wasn&#39;t the car that hit me white?&#39; As I&#39;m looking down at a car underneath me. I&#39;d been hit hard enough I bounced up over the car that hit me and had enough air time to clear the second one. Props to the driver of the third vehicle, he must&#39;ve stood on the damned brakes the moment he saw me because he brought the cement truck to a stop before it got to me. Second time I was hit by a car as a pedestrian. I&#39;m now MUCH more careful crossing streets.. not that it&#39;s helped much, I seem to have a car magnet in my a**.. -tashkiira 10. &quot;That&#39;s it?&quot; As I looked at the surface of the water I couldn&#39;t reach.-Unleashtheducks 11. &ldquo;My throat feels weird, my gums are itchy&rdquo; and blackness like a deep sleep. Woke up a bit later, found out I was allergic to crab the hard way.-scottawhit 12. Was run over by a bus last year, my thought when i went under the tires was....but it&rsquo;s a Wednesday. -peppapigs94 13. &ldquo;God why can&rsquo;t I breathe right now, just wish I could breathe, oh I&rsquo;m getting tired&rdquo; - anaphylactic shock, each time. -Azhreia 14. I thought about how I didn&#39;t buy enough pizzas from my favorite pizza place. It&#39;s pretty good, but thinking about pizza when you think you&#39;re dying is pretty depressing in retrospect.-mundane_teacher 15. Three times, once almost drowning deep end of pool at five, once trapped under flipped ATV in a river, and once being shot at by a crazy old fuck who thought I was a deer. I thought of my mom crying every time. -bombayern 16. Had a stroke last year and was taken to the ER by my brother. The last thing I remember was asking him to take a picture of me with his phone as &ldquo;I must look terrible.&rdquo; After I was admitted, I didn&rsquo;t remember anything other than dreams until late October, and days after I was admitted (when everything was a blank) they induced a coma so that my brain swelling would go down, and I was &ldquo;critical,&rdquo; so I presume I was pretty close to dying then.-bluebirdgm 17. I was on my deathbed and I thought, &quot;Man I wish my mother was here.&quot; When I woke up in the ICU, she wasn&#39;t, nor did she care. -Cida90K 18. Who is holding me under water. I almost passed out. I didn&rsquo;t even know the kid.-needanap 19. As the car left the road and sailed into the trees, I was a very calm passenger. &ldquo;Oh, so this is how it ends. Interesting.&rdquo; I was at peace because everything was out of my hands, and I was just watching it happen.-SSSS_car_go 20. At 14, I almost drowned after getting caught in the waves on a beach trip. After fighting as hard as I could (huge mistake), I was lying on the bottom in the sand. I had two thoughts: -Mom and Dad are going to be so mad -I can&rsquo;t believe that I can&rsquo;t even save myself (had recently completed a jr. life saving course, which was pool based, and didn&rsquo;t cover swimming in the ocean) What I didn&rsquo;t realize was that I had been pushed into shore by the waves and was in four feet of water at that point. My friend saw me and pulled me out. -usually_just_lurking 21. &quot;Well...fuck....&quot; (Car accident) -IrishUpstart 22. Mines a little different but I think it still counts. My heart completely stopped and I was technically not alive for a bit. Honestly there were no thoughts, no bright light, etc. it just felt like... nothing.-ArtsyKitty 

Just as there are a myriad of ways to live, there are thousands of different ways to die. Few people are able to tell us what it&#39;s like in-between, but a Reddit thread from people who have had near-death experiences has interesting...