“If anyone had touched it, they would have been killed...”

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Comments were pulled from this Reddit thread.

"It's crazy to think that whether you lived or died in that moment came down entirely to how strong the root system of some random bush happened to be."

"My wife was there. She looked bad, like she hadn't slept. I told her to go home. She said, 'You've been asleep for six days.' There was a 'Happy Birthday' banner on the wall. It was my birthday. Shitty way to spend your birthday."

"Either the family that was having a picnic, or I was still struggling when the cops showed up. I have the slightest memory of being put in the back of an ambulance, and I was already blinded. I was really in and out at the end there before I completely lost consciousness.

A friend of mine urged me to go get the police report, but I honestly just thought that'd make it worse. I wasn't charged with anything; it was just a stupid accident. I had to talk to a therapist on the way out of the hospital. I think they were checking for self-harm, but I was just humiliated and embarrassed more than anything else."

"It didn’t dislodge. I remember feeling weak and getting down on my hands and knees. Then I started vomiting because that pathway was just fine. I wasn’t gagging or anything, just vomiting. As I was vomiting, the pill became dislodged, and I was suddenly fine. I explained to my then-girlfriend what happened and wasn’t initially all that troubled by it. The distress actually set in later once I had time to ruminate.

Choking almost sounds mundane relative to other options, but man, that was a wild experience. Surreal feeling."

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