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near-death, and how you would react
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| Psy-T |
in 2003, a bus i was supposed to be on - had i stayed for my entire school day - exploded by a suicide bomber, everyone on it died.
my verbal reaction was telling my mom: see? it's a good thing i skip school.
my emotional reaction was basically indifference.
what would yours be?
how would you feel now knowing that you would've been dead 4 years ago if you hadn't cut class?
edit: oh, almost forgot, you also get to see the monument to the people who died nearly every time you go out, since it stands near a major intersection. |
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| FuzzyChicken |
| quote: | Originally posted by Psy-T
what would yours be?
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| quote: | Originally posted by Psy-T
my emotional reaction was basically indifference.
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Something along the lines of what you said. I can't logically help the people or anything like that so its like 'meh' and move on. |
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| Lira |
I'd see all my life passing before my eyes - my childhood, my early teens, my late teens... and my current young adulthood. I'd then ask myself what I've done with my life, and what impact I've had on the lives of others.
Nothing much different from what I already do in a weekly basis, but I'd certainly experience a rather more Heideggerian feeling of "Being-Unto-Death" from that moment on. When people die, you feel one way. When you're the one seeing death in front of you, it then becomes a completely different matter.
I can almost guarantee that, if you were in the bus for some reason, and had survived, you wouldn't be as indifferent as you might think you would. |
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| Ian |
as someone with a tendency to over-analise things, I'd probably be quite haunted by it. The fact that if I applied those circumstances to myself at that age, then I'd have lost a lot of close friends would also hurt. I take things very personally and would wonder why I hadn't been amongst them.
Onto a more general look, I think it'd be very similar. I was nearly run down when I was 10 by our deputy headmaster who was a nice guy. to explain it easier I need to do a lil drawing to give the idea :p
Right. so he stopped at the crossing to let someone cross, he's the red car. yellow is the shop, orange is me & my path. I look up and he's stopping there so I begin to cross. he flew round the corner (it was a very slow corner normally) and came within about a metre of hitting me. I'd done everything properly, looked, waited, looked, crossed, so I thought nothing more of it. then in assembly that morning the headteacher made me walk upto the stage & berated me about my stupidity. I was pretty dumbfounded by it but he tried to make an example out of me. Twat. |
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| Psy-T |
| at your circumstances i'd file charges with the police out of principle. what an utter ****. |
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| DJ Mikey Mike |
I wouldn't care at all. There's nothing I can do for the others, they're gone - and I'm a pretty heartless person anyway. And as far as I'm concerened I am not afraid to die. God only knows how many I've escaped it.
Meh! |
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| LazFX |
Due to some ill decisions I have had my share of near death.
Was helping a man that was shot by a disgruntled employee he fired. The man was shot in the chest. Trying to save his life while the gunnman swung back around and took aim at him and me. I heard the bullets wizz past my ear, hitting the ground shooting cement fragments into my arms and legs. I thought I was shot.... I was was scared. Seeing. hearing and feeling that poor soul leave that man's body will always stick with me... My whole young life flashed in front of my eyes.... but due to pig headedness I did not change my lifestyle or attitude to my fellow men.
The 2nd one is too intense to relive, but I had a baby and all I could think about was her living without me, her growing up knowing that her daddy was killed for nothing.... and the simple fact that I was holding my baby girl while a gun was pointed at my head; shook me to my very core.....
however, you can use these events that happen in your life as steps. Steps to make yourself appreciate your life and the lives of your loved ones. You can harp on the past....but thats all you will become, a person living in the past..... all of the what "ifs" and "could of" "should of" will eat you alive.
and you Psy-T, omg , I am sorry to hear that happened and don't feel bad or guilty about the way you handle the after effects.... just love your life and the lives of others... |
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| Silky Johnson |
| It's happened to me a couple times, and both times I was very calm and accepting of it...almost peaceful. I'm not afraid to die. |
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| d-miurge |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
I'm not afraid to die. |
Don't tell such things with the kind of people that post here. |
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| Psy-T |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
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nice custom status lol. |
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| DJ_Eternal |
I'd find out what death's design what and ensure it wasn't coming back to get me ...
Seriously though, I'd feel quite grateful and get on with my life. |
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| AndreaCKY772 |
one time i was on a "trip" and i thought i was about to die. it is a moment i will never forget in my life (i described the experience in a thread a while ago) i didn't scream or do anything. i jsut sat there and saw my life and thought of my blueprint of the way i was supposed to die.
but if i thought i was about to die i know for a fact i wouldn't scream. the situation is out of my hands so i would have to accept it. i think i would be extremely tense inside but i wouldn't scream. |
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