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.
Being driven across the Atlas Mountains in a snowstorm 25 years ago, by a local taxi driver who plainly put a lower premium on the advantages of living than me.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 June 2018 source ↗
Ten years ago, I went to visit my dad in Australia. I walked to the edge of a cliff and looked over and tripped. I righted myself but my head was over the edge. No one saw it.
Maybe the night we drove a Hummer in Kabul and went to a cafe that Osama bin Laden supposedly used to frequent.
Near head-on collision driving from Oklahoma to California back in the 70s.
In my dreams: I’ll feel as if I am falling towards a white light and then suddenly I wake up.
Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
With my late wife, Siân Busby, and our boys, Max and Simon, on assorted Welsh and English beaches, in sunshine and rain – especially when there was a Punch and Judy show on the prom.
As a dad who was OK.
Maybe I’m Amazed, by Paul McCartney.
A Savile Row suit. Never again. Although I love it, I still feel guilty about what it cost.
I am rarely disappointed. I try to make the best of things.
Zack Polanski, Keir Starmer, Sadiq Khan, Desmond Tutu, Gloria Steinem, Krishnan Guru-Murthy
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