Near death.....

On Sunday (28^th December, 08) on my way back from Chennai in a car along with my friends we met with an accident. Our car hit a road divider and flew for around 150m in air and then fell on to the road and skidded with a broken right front tyre for another 300m.  All this happened in a span of few seconds, but I felt like I was in the air for and eternity!! There were four of us in the car including the guy who was driving and a brand new guitar that my friend had brought for around seven grand. The best part was none of us including the guitar had any damage! J The car was not so lucky; it had a broken tyre, a bent fender and a bent tyre rod, just to name a few.

 What prompted me to write this was the near death experience, I mean if the car had toppled (it probably would have if we did not have a 220 pound driver), then people would have been writing obituaries for me (high hopes!) rather than me writing this post. I went through a whole gamut of emotions during those few seconds and was wondering if I was the only one who went through it. So as soon as I was out of the shock (which I must say took more than 24 hours), I started to search the internet to find out more about it.

I must say, I was surprised and amused by the results that I found. I got to know that they even have a research foundation named NDERF (Near Death Experience Research Foundation), wherein people share their experiences and they do a lot of research on that. Why?? I have no clue..

Also there is a page in wikipedia (there is a page for almost everything in Wikipedia), where the NDE is described in real detail along with characteristics and what not. Boy.. wasn’t I surprised?

It really is a small world…… full of weird people...