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.
When I got hit by a car in my home town.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗
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Fifteen years ago, a bacteria went to my heart. For three days they didn’t know if I was going to live or not.
There are so many instances when I’ve come very close to death that it’s difficult to pick one.
Nearly crashing into a train on one film, almost falling out of a hot-air balloon on another, narrowly avoiding getting knocked over by a taxi …
I think our kids take our stuff!
Nice, direct, loyal.
A Human Touch massage chair in every house.
Being at our beach house with my family in the Bahamas.
My husband, who always seems to have everything in control and is so consistent.
I had to clean up the sump pump [toilet system] in my house because my sister and I flushed things we shouldn’t have.
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