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 the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
Having breast cancer.
About five years ago, a half-tonne tree branch fell and missed me by three feet.
My parents died within four days of each other. I was engulfed as I ran from one bedside to another.
I’ve had a few hairy scrapes as a scuba diver.
Nothing at all.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
Every time I got a lucrative voiceover, I bought a picture. The most expensive was by James Gillray.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
Glenda Jackson said I was an amateur during rehearsal for The White Devil at the Old Vic. I called her a cow, but that was inadequate.
Terry O'Neill, Jake Shears, Adam Clayton, Tom Ellis, Sheryl Crow, Peter Capaldi
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