From page A8 in the 7 March 2005 Washington Post, a story about Bryan Grieg Fry, a snake venom expert at the University of Melbourne. Fry has recently published a definitive survey and characterization of the amino acid sequences in all 24 known types of snake venom ...

[Fry] milks venom from 2,000 to 3,000 snakes a year and feels lucky to have been bitten only 24 times.

One of those bites [from a Stephen's banded snake] launched Fry on his quest to understand the origins of snake venoms ... "It knocked me out very quickly," Fry said. He collapsed in less than a minute. "As I was hitting the ground, I was thinking: 'Hmm, this is a rather unusual effect. If I survive this, I should be able to get a PhD of it.'" [emphases mine]

I must admit, the thought of my once-intended (and since abandoned) PhD has never entered my mind during near-death experiences. I get about as far as, "Oh, fuck." and call it done.
 

In my youth my dog tried to drown me. I don’t think he meant any harm but we were swimming and he climbed on back and would not get off. I kept swimming up each time lower and lower into the water. As I got weaker I thought would drown and I saw my young life flash in front of me. I then saw a newspaper headline of Dog Drowns Boy! Finally one of the group of friends (Peter Mangs, Thanks Peter.) that had been watching in hysterics this whole time jumped in and got the dog off of me. So my near death experience resulted in an imaginary newspaper headline. Go figure. But yes, I would buy this guy a beer!

This sounds like the guy that's part of a show on either the Disovery Channel [disovery.com] or Animal Planet. It's a show specifically about people coming into contact with different kinds of venom (snakes, spiders, scorpions ect.), but for the life of me I cannot find it anywhere on either of the sites. I'm pretty sure it's called Venom E.R. or something like that. It's quite an entertaining show; very informative as well.

In Response to GeminiCrash (#25852):

This one works. [disovery.com]

In Response to GeminiCrash (#25853):

I think you may mean this [discovery.com].

In Response to sentdata (#25850):

Dog Drowns Boy!

Won't sell. Boy Drowns Dog!, now you got it.

In Response to stilllwaiting (#25854):

That looks correct.