8 People Who Cheated Death

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These are 8 amazing people who survived near death experiences. Despite facing certain death, they survived the impossible. Watch these amazing stories now! Today's video was brought to you by our brand new website, http://www.theywillkillyou.com. Come see it for new releases & exclusive footage you cannot yet find on our channel. Subscribe for new videos: http://goo.gl/SaufF4 Watch our “Top 10 Deadliest Animals in Australia” video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt3A6isaKk0&list;=PLdSen-GVHIggIlRFoznrIu_vAV5ah70CM&index;=10 Watch our “7 Terrifying Snake Attacks in History” video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEP6MEo1eXY&list;=PLdSen-GVHIgjnpO7YPzjIOrgTl7aBQA9c&index;=29 Watch our “10 Worst Nuclear Disasters in History” video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v490Z5lo7Xk&list;=PLdSen-GVHIggIlRFoznrIu_vAV5ah70CM&index;=8 Full image attributions available here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/owc8l07uxqixpgl/8%20People%20Who%20Cheated%20Death.doc?dl=0 We all die; it's an inevitable part of life. Yet a select few have managed to prolong their lives despite facing considerable odds against them. Here are eight fortunate souls who have cheated death. Number 8: Aron Ralston April 26th, 2003: avid outdoorsman Aron Ralston is hiking by himself in Blue John Canyon, Utah when a boulder comes loose & lands on his right hand, causing it get to stuck between the boulder & the canyon wall. The boulder weighed an estimated 800 pounds so any attempt at moving it proved useless. Furthermore, Ralston had not informed anyone of his trip, so no one would even know where to begin searching for him if he went missing. He tried many different ways to free his arm over the course of four days, but nothing seemed to work. It wasn't until the fifth day that he ran out of food & water & resorted to drinking his own urine. Assuming he was going to die, Ralston carved his name & date of birth into the canyon wall then used a video camera he had brought to record his goodbyes to family & friends. Then he had an idea. He figured that by breaking the bones in his forearm, he could then use his knives—which were not sharp enough to amputate his hand otherwise—to cut off part of his own arm & free himself. And that’s exactly what he did. It took him an hour to perform this bloody procedure, but he successfully managed to amputate part of his arm in order to escape from the boulder. He then rappelled down the rest of the canyon, where he stumbled upon a family of hikers who gave him food & water while they sought help. Ralston lost nearly 40 pounds during the entire ordeal, including a great deal of blood. It's believed that had he cut off his arm earlier, he would've bled to death and had he waited any longer, he would have died in the canyon. Ralston went on to write a book about this entire experience called Between a Rock and a Hard Place & was the subject of the feature film 127 hours, starring James Franco. Ralston has since continued to climb mountains with the use of a prosthetic arm. Number 7: Andrew Jackson Andrew Jackson—the seventh president of the United States—had a few close calls with death, which he narrowly escaped on multiple occasions. Jackson became a courier of the colonial army during the American Revolution at just 13 years old. He & his brother Robert, however, were captured by British troops & were treated very harshly by their captors. Andrew was reportedly slashed with a sword by a British officer after refusing to clean his boots & Robert died after both boys contracted smallpox. Additionally, Andrew's other brother, Hugh Jackson, died during the Battle of Stono Ferry while his mother died after contracting cholera while volunteering as a nurse. Thus the future president was orphaned at just 14 years old. As a grown man, Jackson developed a proclivity for dueling. A man named Charles Dickinson insulted Jackson’s wife in 1806 & called the man a coward for backing out on a horse racing bet. So Jackson challenged Dickinson to a duel, which was a common method for settling disputes in the 19th century south. Dickinson shot Jackson in the chest, where the bullet broke two of his ribs & was lodged just two inches away from his heart. Jackson retaliated with two shots, the second of which killed his opponent. He survived the encountered but the bullet fragments would cause chronic pain & debilitation for the rest of his life. Then after becoming president, Andrew Jackson survived an assassination attempt in 1835 from a man named Richard Lawrence. While visiting Capitol hill, Jackson was approached by Lawrence, who pulled out a gun & attempted to shoot him. Although the gun misfired, Lawrence pulled out a second gun, which also misfired. Jackson then attacked Lawrence & began beating him with his walking stick until police intervened. Experts tested the guns again years later.