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 about seven or eight years old, I was messing about in a brook with my brothers and a friend of mine, Paul Hewitt, and I almost drowned. Paul saved me.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2017 source ↗
Probably on a Los Angeles freeway.
Coming under attack while reporting in Iraq.
We used to have one of those gat guns that shot pellets. My friend pretty much had the thing at point-blank range to my temple. It popped out and completed its trajectory about a millimetre from my head.
In 1995, I discovered I had two brain tumours. The process of having them removed went on for about three years. It was a long and drawn-out time, wondering whether or not I was going to die.
Love to me is knowing who you are and knowing who you ain’t.
Any sorrys I’ve needed to say have been said already.
A fully functioning thyroid.
Digging holes in Manchester in January.
Oasis splitting up.
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