Wow!!! I've read through all these stories and they're great! I will add my own. Not my experience, but this happened to someone I know.
Well I have a distant uncle who I remembered as a child vaguely. After we moved away from California, I asked my father about him and he told me that he passed away. And this is how he died:
A friend of his came to his house and knocked on the door. The friend wanted my uncle's unused tired and asked if he can have it. Being teh nice person he is, he went out to his garage where the tire is stored on top of the roof. I'm guessing he used some kid of ladder and went up on the roof. While going up, he sliped and fell from the garage roof, head first. He didn't die instantly, but was severly injured. They took him to the hospital where he later died.
From what I hear, there were several signs leading to his unusual death that day. Like a week prior to his death, he, his wife, and his mother went to STP, MN. And after a weekend of shopping and visiting relatives, they drove home on sunday evening trying to make it back to madison, wi. And on the way back, it was about 11-12 midnight, he saw an unusual lady on the side of the highway, dressed in a black robe, with long hair, and waving at him, and smiling. He freaked out and screamed, which woke up his mother and his wife. He didn't want to startle them so he didn't mention anything when they woke up.
After ariving home, he told his mother but they thought it was nothing so they didnt do a jingle bell on him. thats why later that week, he died in the accident.
After teh funeral, the family did a jingle bell for the family to get rid of bad karma. And teh shaman guy told the family that after that incident on the highway, his "plig" (spirit) has already been take by the poj ntxoog. They guy who came back with them in the car was just is souless body.
RIP distant uncle...