What's the closest you've ever been to death?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

When I was a little baby I had serious gastroenteritis. I poisoned myself twice too. When I was a child, I and my family had a mild carbon monoxide poisoning. When I was a teen my dad, that was an excellent driver, avoided by a whisker a bad car accident, a car in the opposite direction was understeering a lot, invaded our lane and couldn't come back on its right side, my dad managed to avoid it and a truck that followed it, but in the right lane slaloming between the two. I had cramps when swimming at least twice when I was younger, but I managed to swim back to the shore anyway. When I was doing the military service, I threw my first ever hand grenade very close, luckily the first one they gave us was a training one, with just the fuse, and you can bet I threw the second, a standard one, a lot further (when I was back at the barracks, people gasped and rolled their eyes seeing me, because some joker went back first and rumoured that I killed myself and the lieutenant ). Finally, considering that back then we were absolutely badly equipped and not trained at all for desert wars (years later Italy bought surplus equipment from USA for the mission in Somalia), I consider my life saved once again by the fact that Italy sent to the first Gulf War just the Navy and the Air Force, and not ground troops. And I can't count the times I avoided car accidents when I was driving, there are too many morons on the roads.