I was out in the middle of East Commonlands, I was a super high level 8 human monk and I was looking for lions to hunt. I was midway through my second, after which I would need five full minutes in RL time to recover from, at which point I heard the flutter of wings and then a level 40 Gryphon killed me in one hit.
I had just leveled and decided to buy some spells. While I was shopping, someone sent me a tell, and I started typing a reply when I was instantly killed by the vendor; I had not initiated chat but autoattacked the vendor when I hit the 'a' key and was instantly killed and lost my level.
I was with a group midway through a dungeon when without warning a high level adventurer ran by, pulling with him every single creature from the depths below. I died in one second.
I was a fully decked out, max level character, pulling for my raid in the Plane of Fear. We were halfway through clearing the zone, we'd been at it for hours or days. As I approached camp with our latest prey, the god of fear interrupted.
Cazic Thule shouts, "QUESA!"
I was instantly killed, as something I had agroed had agroed something else, which had agroed something else, which had agroed something else, which had agroed Cazic Thule; the entire raid then camped out, as he would kill us one by one every 30 seconds until we were all camped and off of his hate list.
Ahh.. Everquest...