Have you ever thought you're about to die?

[Mich the Tester]

(Carrying on from vetran's thread about the columbia astronauts)

I have. I got some very nasty gut infections in India, lost about 3 stone in a few weeks and having puked blood, tulipted something resembling a rotten egg, lost so much fluid I had cramp in every muscle in my body, I downed a half bottle of whiskey thinking I may as well get it over and done with. For some reason I woke up feeling somewhat better with only a stinking headache.

Not nice though, really thinking it's the end; I wonder if those astronauts had that moment of thinking it's over.

[Robinho]

There weren't told of the risk.

So possibly they didn't know until it broke up.

[cojak]

Yes,

The fear of drowning was very real during my kayaking days.

[Ignis Fatuus]

Have you ever thought you're about to die?

You are about to die.

Oh, you meant imminently. No, but sooner than you'd like. There is no time to waste.

[Mich the Tester]

There is no time to waste.

Indeed; that's one lesson from it.

[vetran]

When the caravan travelled over my bonnet.

When the two lorries I was following (a bit too close because they had just braked) decided to part creating a vacuum that tried to eat my car.

Stuck while potholing - I wasn't fat at the time I just have a huge ribcage. Because I got myself worked up I couldn't get through and it was the only way out easily, lots of tired kids behind me.

In Dubai with Arab belly - I found green jelly wanted to gush out of my bottom 200 miles from a loo.

[Mich the Tester]

When the caravan travelled over my bonnet.

When the two lorries I was following (a bit too close because they had just braked) decided to part creating a vacuum that tried to eat my car.

Stuck while potholing - I wasn't fat at the time I just have a huge ribcage. Because I got myself worked up I couldn't get through and it was the only way out easily, lots of tired kids behind me.

In Dubai with Arab belly - I found green jelly wanted to gush out of my bottom 200 miles from a loo.

Yeah what IS the greeny jelly like stuff? In India it was greeny yellow, bloody terrifying.

[Bunk]

Yeah what IS the greeny jelly like stuff? In India it was greeny yellow bloody. Terrifying.

Just be grateful that sentence wasn't punctuated differently.

[EternalOptimist]

Took my lad up to Norway 5 or 6 years ago, in March. I was taking my car over the mountains from Oslo to Bergen, and I checked that the passes were clear, at tourist information. They were.

What they didnt tell me, was that they were open if you had winter tyres, chains, and a snow plough leading the way.
So we went through a patch of snow and I thought we were at the top. We wern't. We took a hairpin and the wheels started slipping. next thing we were heading backwards to a thousand foot drop, with just the barrier in between.

my son looked at me and said 'Dad. are we going to die?' 'yep'.

[SimonMac]

In my scuba day's I was paired with a noob who panicked under water pretty much taking himself out and me in the process resulting in a bad case of decompression sickness and a broken nose