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 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 ↗
I don’t think I’ve ever been close to death but I am a nervous flyer, especially during turbulence, so there have been many times where I’ve felt that I was.
Skydiving: the parachute got tangled around my legs.
Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
I was knocked over by a taxi in Liverpool when I was seven. And I fell off the seventh storey of a car park when I was 10 and broke both legs, my collarbone and my arm.
I would edit my worry, because I suffer from anxiety, which ruins some moments.
Magical, warm, but also butterflies.
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.
An English teacher, and then a dance teacher.
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.
As a good person who was kind, funny, and a little bit naughty.
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