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.
I nearly died by burst ovarian cyst in 2001. I was doing the front cover of a magazine and someone said, “Can you not pull your tummy in?” It turned out that I had been carrying two litres of blood in my stomach. I was rushed to hospital the next morning and nearly died of septicaemia. They had to give me two blood transfusions. Had it been an hour later it would have been bye bye.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 August 2019 source ↗
Watching Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
Swimming off the north Cornish coast eight years ago. I remember thinking, “Why did they teach you how to inflate your pyjamas in life-saving classes at school, when they could have just told you what to do in a riptide?”
I choked on a hard-boiled lemon sweet when I was 13. My brother Sam saved me.
Hitchhiking across Australia as a teenager, relying on the kindness of passing serial killers.
Weird Fishes by Radiohead.
Warm, comforting, hopeful, inspiring and daft.
Finding out I was pregnant when I’d been told it would be difficult to have children.
A barrister or a pop star.
Getting down to the last two of certain jobs (Gangs Of New York and Fight Club) and being thwarted at the last second.
Martin Kemp, Dan Stevens, Omid Djalili, Sue Perkins, Lance Black, John Waters
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