How close have you come to death?

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Recorded Mo Farah said elsewhere, not written here
When I was a kid, travelling from Ethiopia to the UK, the plane door opened, the oxygen masks came down and the plane did an emergency landing in Egypt.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2019 source ↗

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Robert Peston British journalist
Being driven across the Atlas Mountains in a snowstorm 25 years ago, by a local taxi driver who plainly put a lower premium on the advantages of living than me.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 June 2018 source ↗
Gemma Whelan English actress
I was very ill with anorexia when I was a teenager. I went into hospital voluntarily, otherwise they were going to section me.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 January 2020 source ↗

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