Have you or anyone know or known ever cheated death?
One time when I was 16, I was swimming in a pool and started to get out as I realized a thunderstorm was approaching for I heard a thunderclap. Lightning struck the pool maybe 10 second after I'd just climbed out via the ladder which was also a conductor.
An old boyfriend of my sister's when he was 14 went to an amusement park one time. As he was about to get onto a roller coaster, he had to go to the bathroom badly. He couldn't hold it any longer, so he ran to the lavatory hoping he could catch the next ride. Little did he know, the cart ran off the track and everyone on the ride was killed.
An old friend of my mom's went to the University of Texas during the 1960s. He was walking around campus the day Charles Whitman mowed all those people down with a sniper rifle. The guy next to my mom's friend got shot. My mom's friend ran like hell into the bookstore and hid there until it was all over. He said he'd never been so scared in his life. Have you known anyone else who dodged a bullet with his/her name written all over it? No pun intended.