Rad, you live in such a different environment than we do here in the states. Although prairie rattlesnakes can be fiesty at times, I've never talked with anyone that has ever heard of someone dying of a snake bite. However, we don't have cobras here.
I was bit by a black rat snake one time that I was holding. It scared the day lights out of me (amoung other things). When the snake saw that it couldn't swallow me, it spit me out (let go) and that was the end of it.
