re: Has there ever been a situation where you feared for your life?

More than I should, some notables:

Near drowning as a kid. I was probably 6-7 at the YMCA. Playing with other kids and tried to swim too far across the pool, struggled and remember slowly and peacefully drifting towards the bottom of the pool. Lifeguard didn't see me, luckily my mom was watching and snatched me up. No CPR required. The moments of drifting down I can remember vividly.

Hundreds as a teen doing dumb crap, growing up on the water with access to boats at a young age.

A buddy had a 1986 Buick Electra Station Wagon that we used to go out in in high school. We had a game where the driver would crawl out the driver side window, on to the roof rack and re-enter at the back glass of the wagon. Passenger would slide over to drive and everyone would rotate one position. We would see how many times we could rotate thru before our destination. Well, we didn't brief the new kid, so my buddy goes out the window onto the roof, I was standing on the rear bumper, the car is going down a 2 lane road at 40 MPH with no one driving. It didn't take long for the car to depart the prepared surface and head for a tree. Luckily a backseater reached over and grabbed the wheel, avoiding the tree but fishtailing us across the road a few times. We all held on, but we came close to being slung off the car. Yelled at the new kid.

Jan 1, 1992 I hitch-hiked from the Days Inn on Canal St? to Pensacola at 2 AM. Walking from that Days Inn to the Interstate was totally sketchy and I had to act like I was crazy to avoid the scores of folks who looked like they were going to kill me. Then walking down I-10 for a few miles was terrifying. More than one bottle went whizzing by my head from passing cars until I got a ride. Made it to P'Cola at 10 AM.

Motorcycle near miss- slid a bike sideways going about 60 trying to miss a stopped Acura Integra turning into College Park on College street in Auburn. Weaved into on coming traffic to avoid the impact and narrowly missed the on coming traffic. Took me 20 minutes to walk up the stairs of my apartment afterwards, I was weak in the knees and shaking.

I fly un-airworthy planes for a living now, so there might be a few times a year where I need to remove the seat cushion from my arse afterward.

Wall of text. sorry.

ETA- I saw the road passing under me, out of the passenger door as we slide sideways in a Corvette at 115 MPH. Four or five slides and we got pointed straight, still going 80 mph.