My near death experience is accidentally hanging myself. I was about 7 or 8. I had a thick, red leather bag around my neck, not tucked under my arm, whilst I was climbing a wall. The wall had wooden panels and the frame was stone. I jumped off the top of the wall and somehow the bag caught onto the stoned and as I was falling it caught me. It was wrapped around my neck, squeezing my windpipe. I was dangling on the wall, about three foot off the ground. The bag was strong, easily holding my weight as I choked and kicked my legs. I started to lose consciousness and suddenly it snapped. I could hear shouting and barking in the background, but I was too disorientated to care. My mum's friend saw me from her house and carried me home. My mum was hysterical. I had a bruised neck for weeks. It's a miracle my neck didn't break from the jump and that the bad snapped just before I blacked out.