What's the closest you ever came to dying?

[Normchacho]

I can think of...3 times were I was either close to dying, or though I was going to die.

 

1. When I was a baby (less than 6 months old) I got really sick. I had a high feever for like 2 solid weeks. The doctors couldn't figure out why, and actually thought I might have cancer. No medice or anything was working and I just kept getting sicker. Weirdly enough, I just...got better one day. I went from being dangerously sick, to totally fine in a day. No idea why.

2. When I was in highschool, me and a couple of my friends were dicking around in a quarry. I was climbing up a rock wall (you know, like an idiot) and about 3/4 of the way up the rock I was on started to come out of the wall. I managed to scramble to safety before it fell, but I was probably 3-4 seconds from falling 50 feet onto a pile of rocks.

3. A few years ago, I was going out with some friends and decided to take five 200 mg caffeine pills (also like an idiot). For some context, a gram of caffeine is nearly 10 redbulls worth. I had a splitting headache, a stomachache, and my heart was pounding in my chest for a solid 24 hours. I was starving but couldn't eat, and exhausted but couldn't sleep. I honestly probably should have gone to the hosipital.

 

Edit: I've also been hit by a car, fell into a pile of old barbed wire, fallen out of a tree, nearly been swept away by the tide (which is actually a pretty good story, though I never thought I was going to die), and have been threatend with a knife. I've led a pretty rough and tumble life, and have about a dozen scars to show for it.