Jeremy Deller: How close have you come to dying?

The question

How close have you come to dying?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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Jeremy Deller

English artist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Three squaddies on a train in 1995.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2020 source ↗

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Marc Almond English singer

The motorcycle crash, but also when a neon sign fell on my head in Soho in the 90s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2017 source ↗

Siobhán McSweeney

Physically, falling off my bike two years ago. Emotionally, when my mother died when I was 27.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗

Paul Kalanithi Neurosurgeon and writer

I rolled back the images. Looked again. There it was. A new tumor, large, filling my right middle lobe. It looked, oddly, like a full moon having almost cleared the horizon. Going back to the old images, I could make out the faintest trace of it, a ghostly harbinger now brought fully into the world. I was neither angry nor scared. It simply was. It was a fact about the world, like the distance from the sun to the Earth.

Recorded The New Yorker, Page-Turner — an excerpt from When Breath Becomes Air, 11 January 2016 source ↗

Reggie Yates British actor and media personality