From "The Nastiest Feud in Science" by Bianca Bosker in The Atlantic, September 2018:
She was returning from a picnic near Sydney's Suicide Cliffs one day when a bank robber, fleeing the scene of the crime, shot her, puncturing her lungs, shattering her ribs, and landing her in intensive care. "Woman Shot 'for No Reason,'" announced a headline in The Sydney Morning Herald. ("She looked dead," a witness told the paper.) A priest came to administer last rites and, as Keller hovered in and out of consciousness, commanded her to confess her sins. Twice, she refused. "I credit that priest with my survival, because he made me so mad," Keller told me. The experience also cured her of her death wish.
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