I Shouldn't Be Alive is een Amerikaanse dramaserie van de zender Discorvery Channel. De serie ging in première op 28 oktober 2005.
I Shouldn't Be Alive gaat over waargebeurde verhalen, waarbij de hoofdpersonen op wonderbaarlijke wijze aan de dood wisten te ontsnappen. In deze serie worden de waargebeurde verhalen verteld door de overlevenden, aan de hand van realistische reconstructies. Zo wordt in de eerste aflevering verteld hoe vijf mensen in een tropische storm aan haaien weten te ontsnappen.
Divorcee Mathew McGough is taking his five-year-old daughter Shannon for an overnight camping trip to Wallaroo Rocks, deep in the Western Australian Outback. It's Mathew's last chance to spend time with his daughter before he packs up and moves to South Australia to start a new life, so he's keen to make it a trip to remember. When Mathew takes a wrong turn it triggers a sequence of disastrous events that puts both their lives in serious danger. After 8 days in the outback Mathew is on the verge of death and confronted with an excruciating dilemma - kill his young daughter, or leave her to face a painful death alongside him, in one of the world's most hostile environments.