Were you on train tracks?

I like to dodge death. You could call me a dare devil. The amount of stuff I have done is amazing. The closest though to death was rolling under a train. My mate jack and I were camping in the Yorkshire dales in the UK and after one two many drinks Jacky boy dared me to roll under a slow moving train (slow because of sheep crossing) seemed very easy so I agreed, trouble was while doing it my jumper got caught on a piece of metal from the track. Luckily I managed to break free and only lost a finger. The driver must have seen me as he slammed on the breaks I had to lay down under the train for about 10 minutes bleeding out until the Air ambulance could get me. I was nearly arrested but told them I had dropped my wallet, everything went good.

no, it was in a electrical cabinet, I thought it was switched off because the guy said he had switched everything off, but he was talking about the lines coming from the cabinet. I even tested it, but my apprentice handed me a faulty meter. 

Imagine something like that:

3 years ago, I had 3 (or 4) energy drinks in the span of 3 hours. I had a deadline to mark some students' essays and was way behind. I already got an extension and thought if I asked for a second one, they would never give me tutorials again. I had no idea how bad energy drinks can be for you, though I didn't feel anything weird to be honest.

And? What is your point?

That I had no idea that energy drinks could cause all that... I thought it was pretty obvious.

Ahh cool I thought you nearly died.

Nearly drowned at sea. A freak current dragged me and a lot of other swimmers far out. Unlike others here, although I was 8 I was a very good swimmer, but let me tell you guys - fighting against an angry ocean is a losing battle. I survived because myself and a few other swimmers floated or got pushed together, and we all formed a human ring to try and kee afloat before rescue came. Quite intense.

I almost died at birth, so yeah off to a great start there. Almost drowned when I was 5ish, my dad had to jump in and save me. And to top it off I've twice nearly been run over. Once my fault, was tired walking to school and stepped out in front of a bus on a highway. The other time some wanker ran a red light at 3am and nearly took me out.

Also I was born to early... so I spent my first few months in a Incubator.

So I could have dyed at birth if not for modern hospitals and medicine.

"What's the closest you ever came to dying?"

The thing I remember the clearest though is this :
I almost choked to death on one of these when I was younger: