Drowning...confusing question.

[mike001]

Someone once said it was peaceful and that you heard bells or chimes....maybe it's when the oxygen runs out. Never been there, hard to know.

[critter crazy]

I almost Drowned 2 yrs ago, and well it sucked! My chest hurt for days, and my whole body just felt bad! It was not an experiance I would ever want to repeat!

[mike001]

Very lucky that you are here to speak of it today. So I guess from your experience it does hurt...something I wouldn't want to experience.

[dogzr#1]

I almost drowned once when I was little. It was very painful to say the least. I still didn't know how to swim so I was trying to get into those little doughnut things. While I was trying to get in, the thing flipped over and put me underwater. I kept drinking the water and breathed it in a bit too. My mom pulled me out by my foot and saved my life. It was so scary! Even after that I was scared to go into the water. I finally learned how to conquer my fears and now I know how to swim!

[todd]

wow thats some good info

[Beki]

I don't even want to think of drowning :S that would just be sad and i would think that it would be painfull. That would really hurt and suck.

[pitc9]

I almost drowned a few years back on a white water rafting trip. The raft flipped and it landed, upside down on top of me. I had some room to try to breath, but the raft was stuck in the rapid and water was splashing up in my face constantly and I kept sucking in water. I've never felt so close to dyeing and I've never been so scared in my life.
I knew all I had to do was take a deep breath and swim out from under it, but with the water splashing like crazy and every time I tried to take a deep breath all I got was water. I was 100% freaked out and thought I was going to die. I remember thinking about my family and how much I'd miss them. Then.. the next thing I knew, I somehow was out from under the raft. I have no idea how it happened. I was never able to take a breath big enough to swim out on my own because I had already sucked in so much water.
Someone was with me in spirit that day watching over me and they had a hand in getting me out from under that raft, I could never have done it on my own.
That was my first and LAST rafting trip.
Drowning is NOT the way I would want to die.