"Death Defying" is a song by Australian rock group Hoodoo Gurus. It was written by Dave Faulkner. and released in February 1986 as the third single from the group's second studio album, Mars Needs Guitars!. The song peaked at No. 43 on the Australian charts. Faulkner has said the song was written to address the HIV/AIDS crisis that was robbing him of friends in the mid-1980s.