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 ↗
Before I was DPP, I did a lot of work trying to get rid of the death penalty in various countries, and one was Malawi. We’d been in court in Zomba and had to get a plane in Lilongwe, about 200 miles away. We got a local taxi: the guy changed his wheels for the journey because the car wasn’t roadworthy and then hurtled at speed, mostly on the wrong side of the road. I’ve never been so terrified.
I got run over when I was three. I ran across a road in Manchester and was hit by a car. I only had concussion, but I could have died.
Having breast cancer.
Death is always close.
Maybe I’m Amazed, by Paul McCartney.
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.
Being completely still.
Prime minister and brain surgeon.
As a dad who was OK.
Cleaning the freezer room at Bejam as a Saturday job, aged 13.
Zack Polanski, Keir Starmer, Sadiq Khan, Desmond Tutu, Gloria Steinem, Krishnan Guru-Murthy
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