Closest you've come to death?

[Esmoreit]

Animations for the win!!

I can recount three times. Once asa a young boy, 6 or so I fell from a tree and landed on my back, on a small stump sticking out. It didn't hit anything vital thank god but someone had to pull me off from the sharp point..

The second one, I was eight and me and some friends where walking around, enjoying the winterscenery. even the large open sea was partly frozen dozens of meters from the coast. We started to walk over the ice. At some point I felt a shock and jumped up... below me I could suddenly see a large part of the ice crack and slide under the remainder of the other ice. I landed just barely on the side.

Last one I can remember (pulling a bee away from the collar at my throat does not really count I believe) was in the summer when I was...17 or so. We where swimming and the usual dock we where used to jump of was not available - a ship had moared there. So we used the ship as a diving board. I climed to the top hut, and stoot on the railing when I felt my foot slipping. I had no intention of landing on the back of my head so I lunnged myself forward, seeing each succesive railing inch a bit closer to my face... then I hit the water breaking it with the top of my head. I was so lucky I didn't land on the deck there...