Escaping death?

This expression you may have heard almost daily on the internet, on television, on radio and other media. What does it mean you escaped death? Can you really escape death or is it all in your head that you did not wanted to die and you lived. Are you that powerful that once death is staring at you, you can say that it is not my time and I will live for whatever reason? If you can say that I almost drowned twice, once in a pool and once in a lake but was saved both times by a friend and I believed that I did not cheat death but my time was not up. I did not cheat death since I believe nobody can as it is just your own perception that you can escape death. You may not die at one place by a particular disease or instrument but that does not mean that you will live forever and you may be lucky to survive forever. If you have ever seen a horror movie or in particular the Final Destination movies series where the death is following the characters and they celebrate that they have escaped death a number of times but ultimately they are meet death. As they say in the U.S. that death and taxes are certain. But when you die you don’t pay any tax or you can say that if you move to another country you may or may not be paying taxes but you will certainly be meeting death. It is just a matter of time and when you time is up, no matter how hard you try to avoid it, you will certainly meet the angel of death.