Near Death Experiences

We think that:

Lazarus Long is about to die on a World War I battlefield near the end of Robert Heinlein's Time Enough For Love;

James Bond has been killed by Rosa Klebb at the end of Ian Fleming's From Russia, With Love, has fallen to his death near the end of Fleming's You Only Live Twice and could have died after being shot by Francisco Scaramanga near the end of the posthumous The Man With The Golden Gun;

Hanno is about to die at sea on an extra-solar planet near the end of Poul Anderson's The Boat Of A Million Years;

Dominic Flandry and Chives are about to die in space near the end of Anderson's A Stone In Heaven.

All five are rescued, Bond three times.

Observations

Although I do not accept Time Enough For Love as a valid continuation of Heinlein's Future History, Long fits on this list.

Flandry, expecting death, presents an excellent reflection on his life and career as we have read them since Ensign Flandry.

Fleming does it best. M's Times "Obit." for Commander Bond reviews not only Bond's life and career but also the sensationalist and inaccurate accounts of that career written by a former friend and colleague! Then we are told how Kissy Suzuki had rescued Bond. His temporal lobe has been damaged, causing amnesia. Anderson fans (maybe) think of "Temporal," the Time Patrol language, alternative timelines and Bond's alternative life as a Japanese fisherman. But he begins to remember something else...