I shall be the ripe old age of 24
(I got Glandular Fever when I was 13, it killed me - I was 'dead' for 15 seconds - nasty nasty illness)
( watashi-wa Evenin'!, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 18:32, archived)

I didn't die.
but it felt like I was for about a week.

A long, slow, death
(Quatermass and teh Shit, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 18:34, archived)