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 ↗
My sister saved me from drowning. I shouted at her because she pulled me out of the pool and hurt my arm.
Horse riding in a steep canyon in Los Angeles. A couple of paparazzi had hidden under camouflage blankets and when a horse sees a lens, he thinks it’s the eye of a predator. My horse flipped out. When he landed, I ended up on his neck; that was pretty close.
A gig in Chatham.
When I was young, I was pretty reckless – my 20s were quite hedonistic. I don’t know whether I’ve been close to death, but I may have been without realising.
A fully functioning thyroid.
Oasis splitting up.
Any sorrys I’ve needed to say have been said already.
Digging holes in Manchester in January.
Love to me is knowing who you are and knowing who you ain’t.
Joss Stone, Shakin' Stevens, Suzanne Vega, Elaine Paige, David Hasselhoff, Gary Numan
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