My second chance at life: True stories about facing death

by RENYE'

The airbag shot out as I covered my hands over my face. This was the last thing I remembered. Then, blackness...nothing. As I opened my eyes and looked around, I felt groggy and confused. "Where am I?" I thought to myse...read more

by Jean Haywood

My second chance at life My second chance came to me at a very young age. I was a teenage girl who was rebelling at life in general. I ran away from home at the age of 15 and never looked back. I ended up in Colorad...read more

by Laura Hageman

It was a cool evening as I was driving down the highway listening to a song by Cheap Trick. I was driving about 75 mph which was about 15 miles over the speed limit. The highway was empty of other cars so I felt I could go...read more

by Elizabeth Woodward

My second chance at life began on a cold winter night in 1981. I was five years old. Many people think second chances are given to those who have lived long enough to need or deserve a second chance. I, on the other han...read more

by Amanda Buckles

This is my story about my husband's second chance at life. I will start off by saying that it was December 23,2006. My husband had taken up with drinking and doing drugs. I asked him if he would please go and do some last ...read more

by Aurelien Laine

A car crash, people screaming, a baby crying and there I was, lying on the floor, a fire fighter trying to save my life. This is such a strange thing: death. I can't really remember what happened at that very moment but on...read more

by Jimmy Chatham

At the age of nine about 2 weeks after my birthday i was sent home from the third grade cause i wasn't feeling well, little did i know it would be my last time in grade number three. I started complaining to my mother abou...read more

by Emily Malcome

My daughter was taking forever to come out into the world. Ten hours had gone by and I was still in labor. The nurses and doctor had long since gone away to birth those children who had decided to come see the world. Ev...read more

by Donald Z Smith

It was dry and extremely hot. It certainly wasn't the monsoons. I was attached to a Marine combat squad in Vietnam and it was June 1969. I was now a seasoned infantryman and was a grenadier with the squad. I carried an...read more

by Kristi Buckel

Laying on the floor underneath my desk, I sobbed until the breath no longer came. I could not think past the darkness in my mind, staring at the blade in my fist, unsure of whether or not I wished for the courage to use i...read more

by Gary Maclean

1963 was a wonderful year. The 8th grade went smoothly for me now that I could stay in one school and finish it out. The summer was even more exciting; I had cemented my friendship with two very close cousins and we were r...read more

by Shannon Shae

I had no idea that I would be endangering my very life simply going on vacation. Jokingly, I tell people that, "I'm allergic to Roatan, Honduras." It was no joke at the time. The possibility of death is very sobering. ...read more

by Erin Leatham

In the third month of my second pregnancy, I found my self ill with what appeared to be severer morning sickness. I was in the emergency room an average of two to three times a week for two weeks. They were giving me IV ...read more

by Shannon Garrity

On August 25th 2003, my ability to be strong and have faith in God was tested. I was 30 weeks pregnant with my first child and in the hospital fighting for my life and the life of my unborn child. I had been diagnosed wi...read more

by R.J. Giuffre

An epic battle against a great beast of steel flesh and fiery blood is how I like to describe the first end to my life, yet it was simply not so grandiose. I was a fifteen year old student walking home from school, not an ...read more

by Paul Rees-Jones

My life had reached a point where I did not want it to continue. My arm was scarred from the cuts and gashes my knife left when my anxiety was too much to handle. I am not a weak man, but I just could not face another day....read more

by Valentine Logar

My second chance was not an act of nature but an act of cruel violence so terrible and so meaningless even today my heart and my mind have difficulty reconciling it. My story is hard for me to tell even sixteen years late...read more

by Rebecca Wohlfert

When I was very young, about 13 years old, my uncle had committed suicide. Most people, including myself at the time, would not see this as a near death experience, but I beg to differ. For as long as I can remember, ...read more

by Backwaterkate

I've had more than a second chance at life. In fact, I've had many. My first brush at death was when I was in my early twenties. I was a bartender and after work we would all meet up at a planned destination. Then we w...read more

by Serena St. John

My First Dead Body I selected nursing as a career, I chose to work as a nurse's aide while attending school, I made a commitment to be good at what I did, and I was eager to learn everything I could whenever I could. ...read more