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I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me.

My life had become a catastrophe. I had no idea how to turn it around. My band had broken up. I had almost lost my family. My whole life had devolved into a disaster. I believe that the police officer who stopped me at three a.m. that morning saved my life.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

I didn't want to die. I wanted to live. I wanted to be with my family and wanted to see my 11-year-old son grow up.

My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

When I was diagnosed with cancer, like so many other people, my life changed forever.

When my parents died, it became clear to me that there was an end in sight. Death was never a real thing to me. And then when that happened I realized I only have so many years left, if I'm lucky.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

I came face to face with death at thirteen years old.