The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
In a helicopter crash in Wyoming in 2005. My cameraman broke his back and both legs; the pilot broke his back. The helicopter didn’t catch fire, so I’m still here today.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 September 2016 source ↗
I hit a bit of lumpy tarmac driving my motorbike over the Pyrenees in the early 1980s. There was no safety barrier and I found myself riding along the edge of a precipice on half the width of the tyres for 100 yards.
I was on a plane in India and I thought it was going to crash. It was an old, rickety thing. It was pre-children - I wouldn't do it now.
I’ve had cancer three times, but never felt close to death except when I walked between parked cars on my street and a car sped past my nose.
Last year when I had a pulmonary embolism – it was a very scary time.
While tracking wolves in Idaho, we came across a wolf carcass. It was likely the pack had been poisoned in a deliberate act. I am a hunter, but I respect wildlife and I also respect predators.
For being genuine.
My wife, Ruth, because she holds the fort, making it possible for me to do what I do.
Right now. I live in the present.
The sound of nightingales, but it is the most lovely sound. If someone said it was an elf playing a flute, I would believe them.
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