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22 People Who Are Alive Just Because Someone Made A Sacrifice Share Their Story

Near death experiences are the sorts of things that stick with us for the rest of our lives. Our mortality is a topic that is hard to ignore one way or another, but it’s even more “intense” if the situation also claimed someone else’s life. For all the stories of heroes, self-sacrifice and so on, encountering it in the flesh is a very different matter.

Someone asked "[People] who had their lives saved by someone that gave up theirs, what's the story?” and netizens shared their examples. So settle in as you read through, upvote your favorites and post your own examples in the comments below.

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