"Hit the 'grenade' button instead of the 'switch weapons' button. "

Creeper gone and blew me up. 

Near the end of my arduous quest to stop the Nazis from fully unleashing another dimension upon the world, I wiped the sweat from my brow and approached my arch enemy from behind. The battle was down to me and Hans Grosse now. We had fought years earlier, as I made my escape from Castle Wolfenstein.  
 
He was a pushover back then, but it was clear that, ever since I killed Mecha-Hitler those many years ago, he had been training like Ivan Drago to take me down. (not that I know who Ivan Drago is, being a WW2 era spy and all... and to me, "many years" was more like "a couple of years") 
 
Anyway, I steeled my jaw, and battled Herr Grosse. Twice I was able to remove the powers he had gained via this mysterious dimension we know fought in. By now, we were both exhausted and running on nothing but sheer adrenaline. He mocked me from atop a spire. "Now you die, Blazcowicz!" he yelled, in a similar manner to what I assume will be a Bond villain 20 years from now. In a way, I felt sorry for him.  Like many Nazis, he was probably living in constant fear of his superiors, only committing these acts of evil because the alternative was death to him and his loved ones. (I recalled killing his sister, Greta, and understood why he was so hellbent on revenge)  
 
Nevertheless, he had to die. He was too powerful, and he had killed too many innocent civilians.
 
I rushed headlong toward him. He would NOT keep me from completing my mission.  
 
A thunderous roar emitted from the spire, and I watched helplessly as a rocket sped toward my face. A flash of white light seared my vision, which was now bloodsoaked. "You are injured! Get to cover!", I thought to myself, but there was nowhere to run. Before I could even shamble forward, another rocket put me down for good.
 
As I lay on the rocky ramp that lead to my once ultimate goal, words hovered before me. They were nonsensical, and yet I knew instinctively that somehow they held the key to my eventual victory against not only Hans, but the entirety of the Axis armies.  
 
The words were as follows:  
 
YOU HAVE DIED 
 
[Enter] Load last checkpoint. [Escape] Return to menu.

I was shot in the head by a ghost.

The last game I played was Raskulls...so I guess I died from being already dead...

I fell off the edge of a series of beautiful, abstract shapes floating in the air above an endless ocean. 

I think I got my ass kicked a little in Kingdom Hearts re:coded. I can't remember the specifics, but I'm willing to bet that it was druing that timed search in Agrabah.

Wraith spawned above me and squished me into tiny tiny bits.

I was hunting this velociraptor and right when I was about to shoot her, this clever girl had her pack attack me from the side!

Comrade Miller didn't bother to shoot Amoebas behind his back. It was a painful death.

my friend and i ran into a room that looked familiar. there was a big door so we went up to it to see if we could leave, but we couldn't, and then a bunch of fucking ghosts spawned right on us and we had no where to go. we went down fast. our two AI partners tried to save us but were immediately killed by the clusterfuck of ghosts on top of us

Everyone knows wizards can't swim....except me, apparently.

I told my Mudoken friends to follow me, but alas, the destination was a sheer cliff face. Upon striking the ground, I splattered, shrivelled, and birds flew out of my ashes.

I was running away from the raincoat killer, but had to climb over a wooden obstacle. While I was climbing, the raincoat killer threw his axe, breaking the wood obstruction, but also suspending me in the middle of the air with no escape. I was fucked.

Going to be some time until my next death with my gaming time all put towards Yakuza 4 at the moment. And I'm more referencing it's notable ease throughout, more so than you not technically dying should you lose.

<---------------------------     I pressed  Start   Game on his game

The worlds greatest Assassin just didn't learn how to swim

I was hanging from a wall and had to jump to a ledge on the opposite side, and well...I missed.

Alien minions killed me while I was trying to make sense of a very bad boss battle.

"   

   
Pushed off a bridge by a Maneater. Rolled off a bridge to avoid a Maneater. Stuck in a corner and pounded to death by two Maneaters.  "

During Operation: Anchorage, I marched with my fellow troops to kill the Chinese general and secure victory. I tried to convince their general to go out honorably and kill himself, but with a 98% chance of success, I failed. I had to fight this bullet sponge of a general, and while we fought, I accidentally shot one of my allies in the crossfire. Everyone who was on my side mistook this for treason, and thus I was overwhelmed not only by my enemies, but by my own troops as well.

I didn't die, but I did send a few thousand good men to their death in the name of their Damieo. Not to mention a few thousand more for foolishly standing against my might, as I ascend to my rightful place as Emperor of Japan.  
 
Death by hail of arrows, or by being run through with my army of katanas. Stand against me and your fate is sealed!

" I've died lots of ways in games of course but the first thing that came to mind was the death of my interest in playing Oblivion several years ago. I put loads of time into pimping my guy out, climbing a bunch of dark towers, picking herbs and shit, waiting for that certain time of day to continue a quest, etc... I loved just running around doing stuff in the world outside of the main quest. I don't remember exactly how it happened now but I did something... and boom, I was a vampire. Fuck that shit. I still think it's a fantastic game but I was way disappointed. "

"   

   
Pushed off a bridge by a Maneater. Rolled off a bridge to avoid a Maneater. Stuck in a corner and pounded to death by two Maneaters.  "

An error has occurred. Hold down the POWER Button to turn off the power, then turn it on and try again.

I got gang raped by france, austria, flanders, a bunch of german OPM's and Poland in EU3.

I was DIVING off the MOON......what a dumb idea......

Darksiders froze.

" Racoons can't swim. "

A zombie nurse stabbed me to death.

It turns out that trying to assassinate feudal warlords, even if they are drunk at the time, is still a total pain in the ass.  Especially in a small room and if the asshole has swords as long as you are.

I was getting shot at and had no magical cover to restore my health.

Tornado got repelled.

This dude with a skull face cut me at the waist, then the neck, kicked my torso, separating my body into three parts, and finally sliced my head in two. You'd think that anyone of those actions alone would have been enough, but it turns out it was all totally necessary.

Tried to stealth kill an alien, but my suit was out of juice.

I was focusing to much on letting my buddy Chomp get fighting experience from a bunch of monsters, so one of the bipedal alligators hit me with his spiked club one time too many.

I was providing some suppressive fire from behind an abandoned taxi when this invisible fuck ran up and power kicked the car into me.

I started playing Planescape Torment, apparently I'm already dead at the start of the game.

Defeating the current Shogonate is not an easy task.

i'm sacrificed myself for defeating my worst and final enemy...
Lol...

I sealed Nyx, saved the world, lived for 3 months with my mates, then passed away in a human-robot-android girl's lap. Pretty awesome way to die.

The blocks just kept coming and coming. I couldn't breathe. I was trapped. I tryed my best to stay alive but it was inevitable. My screen filled up to the top. And there I was, dead...

A Goomba poked me. What a douche.

" @Wrighteous86:  Whatever happened to that game? "

" I sealed Nyx, saved the world, lived for 3 months with my mates, then passed away in a human-robot-android girl's lap. Pretty awesome way to die. "

I fell to my death. The way my prostate cringes every time I near a ledge in many games both tickles and disturbs me.

blew my brains out with a javelin gun.