"Closest encounter with death?"

Although Ive almost been hit by cars many times, almost drowned, and have hit my head plenty of times, I feel as though my closest encounters with death have been the numerous times I've had a blade in my hand and thought about how slicing your arm across doesn't do it. It's sliding the blade "up the alley" in a vertical line that does the trick. 

Those are the closest encounters because they were times I was looking forward to meeting death.