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My uncle died in July at 46. He was a personal trainer and an ultra runner - organised (and ran until recently) the West Highland Way race - 95 miles in 36 hours. He had a heart attack while on a training jaunt up Lochnagar. Totally unexpected and threw quite a few of his family and friends for a loop.

I had a neighbour die at 40, from a blood clot on the lung, in her sleep. Clean-living woman.

And I have had three near-death experiences myself (20, 30, and 39). Seems too many for one person. It does change you. Once you get beyond the huge immediate physical and psychological impact (emergency operations, PTSD), you do live your life in a different way. Long-term planning takes on a very different meaning.

Yes, "near death" experiences allow people to prioritise afterwards and concentrate on the really important things in life like other people's grammattical errors, for example.


It, usually, stops people being pedantic as they realise the "little things" matter not one jot.

Brendan Wrote:

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> Does, people sticking guns in your face count as

> near death experiences?


No !! If someone sticks a shooter up yer hooter they are, usually, just joking.


Happened to 2 of my M8's who manage Betting Shops.

Tony.London Suburbs Wrote:

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> Brendan Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Does, people sticking guns in your face count

> as

> > near death experiences?

>

> No !! If someone sticks a shooter up yer hooter

> they are, usually, just joking.

>

> Happened to 2 of my M8's who manage Betting Shops.


....they all laughed afterwards...

Brendan Wrote:

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> Yeah, I know shitloads of dead people who didn?t

> get the joke.

> Brendan Wrote:

Yeah, I know shitloads of dead people who didn?t get the joke. M8 :))



If they didn't have a "Good Sense Of HumoUr" then its hard to feel sorry for them.


Harsh but fair.

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