The question
How close have you come to death?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 was seven or eight, I got run over and was actually under the car, which was scary. I just ran out; it was totally my fault. I was fine – all I got was a tiny scar on my knee.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 June 2021 source ↗
In a helicopter crash in Wyoming in 2005. My cameraman broke his back and both legs; the pilot broke his back. The helicopter didn’t catch fire, so I’m still here today.
On the interstate. Anyone who has driven in the United States will know that you are always very close to death – it is like the wild west on the freeways.
Diving in the Virgin Islands. I lost sight of the boat and had to swim to a tiny, deserted island. After a great deal of time, the rescue boat saw me waving for my life on the rocks.
Near head-on collision driving from Oklahoma to California back in the 70s.
To Jade, my other half, because I can be hard work sometimes, and he is the most calm and understanding person I’ve ever met.
When I was younger, I appeared in the Halifax adverts that featured a cake or a bridge made of hundreds of people. You stood there for three days and were not even really seen.
Magical, warm, but also butterflies.
I would edit my worry, because I suffer from anxiety, which ruins some moments.
As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.
An English teacher, and then a dance teacher.
Gary Numan, Sheryl Crow, Shaun Ryder, Liam Gallagher, Bryn Terfel, Bruce Dickinson
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