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.
In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 September 2018 source ↗
I’m closer today than I was yesterday.
When I had cancer. I was having a shave and thought: “Are you meant to have a big hard lump on one side of your neck?”
Last year, driving in California, I found myself on the wrong side of the road. I was 30 seconds away from hitting two cars coming the other way.
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.
The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.
Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
As someone who made a difference.
A few nights ago I was crying in my sleep, dreaming of my dead parents.
A 1955 Jaguar XK120. It was not in very good condition and, little by little, I brought it back to its former splendour.
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