How close have you come to death?

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Recorded Jason Donovan said elsewhere, not written here
Maybe in the 1990s, but I was so selfish at the time, I wouldn’t really have noticed what was going on.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 January 2024 source ↗

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Bryan Adams Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
Skydiving: the parachute got tangled around my legs.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 December 2022 source ↗
Roger Ebert Film critic
One of these days I will encounter what Henry James called on his deathbed “the distinguished thing.” I will not be conscious of the moment of passing. In this life I have already been declared dead. It wasn’t so bad. After the first ruptured artery, the doctors thought I was finished. My wife, Chaz, said she sensed that I was still alive and was communicating to her that I wasn’t finished yet. She said our hearts were beating in unison, although my heartbeat couldn’t be discovered. She told the doctors I was alive, they did what doctors do, and here I am, alive.
Recorded Salon, excerpted from Life Itself: A Memoir, 15 September 2011 source ↗
Lance Black American screenwriter, director, producer and activist
On a flight between Beijing and London with Team GB divers. There was a fire on the plane. We landed on a long-abandoned strip in Siberia. Two days later, the same flight attendants told us we had beaten the odds by surviving.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 June 2019 source ↗

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