Oh yes! Otherwise you would have had to reload several time until your driver got the QTE sequence right. I hope you did quicksave just before the highway scene, did you?

I was near death when I was like 4 years old, pesticides poisoning (my uncle left an open barrel of those), but I don't remember a damn thing. Only being in a hospital and it was horrible.

You know, I'm surprised...Just read the whole thread to this point and I'm disappointed that not one of you has so far commented on the fact that the driver was female. In either an appreciative or a funny way. Commentators be slipping or else they missed that little detail in the story.

Else, glad all is well P1na. Otherwise, we'd be asking about you in that other thread somewhere down the road.

I'm afraid it was a roguelike, and I didn't want to ruin the experience by cheating with the savefiles.
And pregnant, too

I'm not sure being inside a tank will do you much good when you fall off a bridge...

I've had various physical twinges - suddenly racing heartbeat for no apparent reason etc. - which have caused me to believe I was about to die. These are extremely unpleasant experiences and I'm not sure to what extent they are "real" (i.e. have physical causes) or are "psychosomatic", but I'm always mightily - almost religiously - relieved and grateful towards life when I get through them. I shouldn't smoke and drink like I have done since I was 14 years old, but I feel I need these comforts and can't see myself changing now. I was naturally athletic in my younger days but circumstances led to me to cigarettes and alcohol and this may be what kills me in the end, along with stress, but I can't see myself changing without becoming extremely unhappy.

I've had a couple of scares in car incidents : I was knocked over while running across the road when I was about 15. The car was travelling at about 25 mph on impact and I flew into the air, my wristwatch flew off etc. I got away with a badly bruised lower leg that time but I never thought I was going to die. The other time I was in the back seat of a car driven by a Royal Marine (it was his mum's car actually). I was with another friend in the back seat and we were terrified. The driver was hurtling round blind corners on country roads (single lane) at well over 60 mph. The guy was mad and we were lucky. I didn't have a "near death experience" though. I think you have to be actually, physically about to die to have one of those. Apparently your whole life flashes before you and you can see a bright light coming towards you. I don't dismiss these experiences as "made up" or products of an over-imaginative mind, or religious delusions, but I can't say I've ever had such an experience, thank goodness.

You've either got to be real drunk or Kelsy Grammer to hit a power line at that angle!

Why doesn't this guy just kill himself ? That would be a start to a cure for the problem which he seems so altruistically concerned about. I didn't read the whole piece, couldn't be bothered to be honest, but if he's serious then he should do the right thing and lead by example.

Or Billy Joel.

Come to think of it I've been involved in two other car incidents and have been very lucky to survive all four. Young headcases + cars = death. There is hardly a more brutal death than a high speed automobile accident. I've never driven in my life and don't intend to learn now but it always amazed me how reckless my peers were when driving while I was a teenager. Some of my friends were awesome characters but when they got behind a wheel they were idiots.

"Near death experiences" have always interested me. Scientists think they can explain everything away and "demystify" every strange phenomenon with answers couched in terms of physics and chemistry but I'm not so sure. Life and death are both still great mysteries and are not in the least bit understood by science. Science only understands the physical world, which is not the whole.

I probably had a near death experience but my brain blocked that memory out.
When I was 12 I came from school and just before entering home, at the very last street I needed to cross a car hit me.
Considering my position I probably have looked the driver straight in the eye. The car wrecked my knee while I wrecked its windshield with the back of my head. It was a Ford Fiesta (I hate Ford since that time) and a female driver who never called or informed herself about my condition even though I got my first ride with an ambulance, which I thought was pretty cool at that time.

The thing is, I remember that I wanted to cross the street, but the next thing is a bumping sound and I came back to me senses lying on all fours in front of the car.

Back to Pinapple's example,
I think the speed limit on Germanys Highways isn't the problem, most of the drivers are. I'm riding a motorcycle - I don't have a car - so I'm always risking my life out there, but the thing that troubles me are the bad drivers who simple shouldn't be allowed to drive their car like it's a weapon of mass destruction.

I take it that you're not particularly familiar with xkcd.

No I'm not. Is it satire or something ? It was a long article and I couldn't be bothered to read the whole of it because it looked long. I just hate politician types and their arguments. If it was satire then fair play to the guy. I'll have a look shortly :)

as a child I have experienced a life review in a very dangerous moment while riding a bike, it was like a flash of every moment I have experienced in my life in less than half of a second, even things I have forgotten or didn't remember

ohh and btw, NDE (near death experience) is state of mind when you're aware of yourself even if you're in deep coma after some incident or even dead, white light at the end of a tunnel, meeting light beings, dead relatives, people from past lives you didnt meet in your current life, reviewing your life etc... but the term itself doesn't stand for being "nearly dead" by surviving some crash