At Exit Matters we play with ideas that touch everyone – including death. It almost touched me at an early age in the form of a car accident. What made the deepest impression was not my own “brush with death” because I was unconscious, but the story my dad used to tell of that day. Even years later he would recall the rainy morning and being in the bathroom shaving when a neighbour frantically knocked on the door to tell him his daughter had been hit by a car on her way to school.  It was as if I was feeling a parent’s pain at not knowing if their child would be okay and I was witnessing the raw moments of him facing loss – even though I knew the ending was life not death.