21 Times People Told the Angel of Death 'Not Today'

Carly Tennes Published 05/09/2024 in wow

We all die. Not everyone, however, gets to live to tell the tale. For a handful of very lucky Redditors, who managed to ever-so-narrowly escape the clutches of death, landing in the second half of this paradox has proven to be a defining experience, ones that were almost as terrifying as they were enlightening.

From one commenter who got the full Wizard of Oz tornado experience while on the road in Texas to a traveler who managed to survive a doomed airplane, here are 21 terrifying ways people told death "not today."

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“I was in an airplane that was going down. I went through the mental stages of dying. Said a prayer, didn't help. At the end I felt peace and acceptance and a very calm. Then the controls unlocked and we just managed to pull out. I don't fear death after that.”
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“Left the gas on when I was little making eggs. My stepfather came back early one day from work. He never did that. Chances are I would have either blown up or died from poisoning.”
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“My frat bro’s mom was in the Chi Omega house at FSU in 1979. Ted Bundy broke into the house while they were sleeping and killed the two girls in the room across the hall from hers and seriously beat up two other women. She had to testify at his trial. What saved her? She locked her door.”
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“2nd day in Iraq, mortar landed about 100 feet from me. Closer would have been bad. Last day in Iraq, mortar landed 20 feet from a bunch of us, was a dud.”“While going 100+mph on a motorcycle, I went in-between 2 deer bounding across the street. I fortunately didn't have any time to react or I would've surely hit the second one. Instead I just eased off the throttle to a stop, and took a few minutes to breathe and think about how bad that all could've gone.”
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“While going 100+mph on a motorcycle, I went in-between 2 deer bounding across the street. I fortunately didn't have any time to react or I would've surely hit the second one. Instead I just eased off the throttle to a stop, and took a few minutes to breathe and think about how bad that all could've gone.”
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“Tornado passed over my car on the freeway in Texas.”
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“I was in an airplane that was going down. I went through the mental stages of dying. Said a prayer, didn't help. At the end I felt peace and acceptance and a very calm. Then the controls unlocked and we just managed to pull out. I don't fear death after that.”
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“Left the gas on when I was little making eggs. My stepfather came back early one day from work. He never did that. Chances are I would have either blown up or died from poisoning.”
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“My frat bro’s mom was in the Chi Omega house at FSU in 1979. Ted Bundy broke into the house while they were sleeping and killed the two girls in the room across the hall from hers and seriously beat up two other women. She had to testify at his trial. What saved her? She locked her door.”
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“2nd day in Iraq, mortar landed about 100 feet from me. Closer would have been bad. Last day in Iraq, mortar landed 20 feet from a bunch of us, was a dud.”“While going 100+mph on a motorcycle, I went in-between 2 deer bounding across the street. I fortunately didn't have any time to react or I would've surely hit the second one. Instead I just eased off the throttle to a stop, and took a few minutes to breathe and think about how bad that all could've gone.”
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“While going 100+mph on a motorcycle, I went in-between 2 deer bounding across the street. I fortunately didn't have any time to react or I would've surely hit the second one. Instead I just eased off the throttle to a stop, and took a few minutes to breathe and think about how bad that all could've gone.”
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“Tornado passed over my car on the freeway in Texas.”
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