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.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer a few years ago, but so early that I knew it wasn’t a death sentence. Until we get a cure for cancer, early detection is our best hope.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 April 2017 source ↗
A trip to a Macedonian refugee camp that I switched out of, to go at a later date. Those who took my place were killed in a horrific car accident.
Watching Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
Hitchhiking across Australia as a teenager, relying on the kindness of passing serial killers.
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.
The Rolling Stones’ You Can’t Always Get What You Want.
Right now. I am loving my children’s ages – Wyatt is nine and Levi is six – and I wish I could freeze time.
I’ve been lucky. When I was a kid, I babysat and was a lifeguard, which I didn’t hate; and then I was a teacher, which I liked.
Euphoric and very calming.
I got very emotional yesterday with a dear friend who was telling me about his relationship falling apart.
The state of our government and the direction that this crazy person is taking us in.
Shakin' Stevens, Joss Stone, Suzanne Vega, Elaine Paige, David Hasselhoff, Gary Numan
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