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.
One night in Cats, I missed my footing and nearly plunged more than 30ft. As if by magic, the stage manager’s hand appeared and winched me from certain death.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 September 2016 source ↗
Today is a pretty important day. It was August 15th, 2007, when I was told I likely had "three to six months of good health left." Today is six months from that day. Just to prove I'm still alive, here I am, holding today's New York Times! I rode my bike today; the cumulative effects of the chemotherapy are hurting my stamina some, but I bet I can still run a quarter mile faster than most Americans. The doctors weren't wrong; they always said that if the palliative chemo worked, I'd buy more time, but that it was a long shot. And the doctors have done a brilliant job of tweaking my regimen to help my odds. How much longer this will work is hard to know, but I'm going to keep having fun every day I have left, no matter how many or how few of them I get.
My failed driving test a few months ago. I got three majors and by the end of it the examiner couldn’t wait to get out of the car.
When I rode on the back of a motorbike from London to Rome with my eyes closed the entire way.
Rock climbing in Oslo. During abseiling, I hadn’t tied a knot at the end of the rope and almost slid out. I saw the end of the rope at the last second, so I stopped abseiling.
If I have upset someone, I have said sorry to him or her at the time.
I’m happy: I have a wonderful career and great friends.
Watching tennis.
Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien. And my headstone should read: “Game, set and match.”
The Queen. Long may she reign.
Maybe That’s Your Problem, a musical about premature ejaculation. It closed after only 18 performances.
Laurence Fox, Brendan Gleeson, Felicity Jones, John Malkovich, Adrian Edmondson, Paapa Essiedu
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