“Lucky to be alive”

I’ve heard the expression “lucky to be alive” lots of times and wondered how anyone would know what it meant unless they’d experienced death?
Is death so bad that you’re lucky to be alive then?
I’ve seen video clips of people who’ve come back to life after dying and they didn’t say they were terrified by the experience. The term “lucky to be alive” seems to be an odd one, then. Dying is not something you really want to happen to anyone at any time, though.

I was “lucky to be alive” when once, without looking, i ran into the path of an oncoming bus which missed me by a small margin. I was only a kid at the time but it shook me up nonetheless. I remember watching the tv when Ayrton Senna hit a wall when he was racing. Unfortunately, he wasn’t so “lucky to be alive” that day. As i sit here in a wheelchair, being “lucky to be alive” is the last thing i think about. It certainly doesn’t feel like i’m “lucky to be alive”. at the moment.

it’s funny how the saying “lucky to be alive” doesn’t really concern anyone i know. It doesn’t stop them from thinking it, though. The term “lucky to be alive” should be used when you win the National Lottery because only then do you really know you’re “lucky to be alive”. When you’re stuck in a wheelchair being kept alive just so the bigwigs can feel good about themselves do you question the decision to keep you alive. When you have a meal given the ok by SALT you don’t feel “lucky to be alive”. Just the opposite.

The term “lucky to be alive” can mean a lot of things to a lot of different people and should only be used when appropriate. If you say it to the wrong people you might get a very different reaction because, to them, being alive is not very lucky. You can be okay one minute and not the next. and being given the choice to decide for yourself is paramount. Dr David Goodall, an Australian, reached the age of 104 and decided that, for him, enough was enough. He ended it all. The choice to finish it all was his. He didn’t feel that just being alive was very “lucky”.