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Judaism has a lot of rules:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments

But the sanctity of life trumps virtually all of them, so you can almost always violate a commandment to save a life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pikuach_nefesh

As teenage boys in Hebrew school, we always tried to figure out ways in which violating the commandment against adultery could save a life.

If I remember correctly there are 3 things you can't do to save a life: illicit relations, take a life and idolatry. Meaning even that if you do find yourself in a situation where cheating on your wife would actually save a life then it will still be forbidden

Yeah, there's actually an explicit example in the talmud.

https://www.sefaria.org/Sanhedrin.75a.2?lang=bi&with=all&lan...

definitely prohibited

EDIT: actually this gemara is an example of saving ones own life, so maybe not

You should watch the first episode of Black Mirror. Depending upon your exact interpretation of the rules, this may contain an example.

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