Close to death?

When did you feel that you were so close to death?
when you were trapped in a very miserable relationship?
when you were at a gunpoint?
when you lost your loved one(s)?
when you lost your beloved properties?
or when you thought you were not worth living anymore?

funnily
i surrendered my feeling
of being so close to death
of being so chokingly desperate
(or was it desperately choked?)
in an MRI tunnel...

not so breathtaking of an experience
nor a religious one
but it's good to laugh at that now