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.
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On a motorway three years ago. An HGV hadn’t seen me and pulled out. My father-in-law’s a truck driver and he said black cars are not very visible. I don’t drive them any more.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 December 2016 source ↗
I’ve dodged a couple of bullets in dodgy war zones, but I suspect the closest I’ve come to death was a reckless, drunken brush with a waltzer at a student funfair. It nearly chopped me in half.
I’ve been to two postmortems in real life, and spent the last 14 years talking about death at work – so, pretty close.
A gig in Chatham.
This is a lot harder for you than it is for me. If you had gone to bed as many nights as I did in the old days knowing that you had taken so much stuff that could kill you and not knowing if you would wake up, this is not as shocking as you think.
Holding my two babies, Phoebe and Amber, for the first time.
Serving bar snacks in a pub in my teens. Once I spilled an entire family’s Sunday lunch into the dad’s lap.
Bruce Forsyth, because not only is he the most talented showman, he is the most generous individual.
Julien Macdonald, Graham Norton, Corinne Bailey Rae, Penny Lancaster, Bryan Adams, Lesley Sharp
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