Jeremy Deller: How close have you come to death?

How close have you come to death?

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.

Recorded Jeremy Deller said elsewhere, not written here

Three squaddies on a train in 1995.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2020 source ↗

Others on this question

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Bobby Gillespie Singer and songwriter

In 2016, I fell off stage in Switzerland and broke my back in four places.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 May 2021 source ↗

Omid Djalili British stand-up comedian and actor

I had spinal meningitis when I was 13.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 August 2010 source ↗

Liam Gallagher English singer-songwriter

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.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2017 source ↗

Mathew Horne English actor

Last Christmas I was clipped by a train. Mum was dying so my head was elsewhere. I was walking home and had to cross one of those crossings that say, “Stop, look and listen.” I didn’t do any of those things, and I had my headphones in so I couldn’t even hear the train. It clipped my left elbow.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 December 2019 source ↗