Article: INTERVIEW: PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS - If you are afraid to die -you are afraid to live; Jill TUNSTALL INTERVIEWS PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS.(Features)

Byline: Jill TUNSTALL

PHILIP Jones Griffiths has stared death in the face many times during his career as a war photographer but it was in the confines of a hi-tech American hospital last year that he actually looked deep into the Grim Reaper's eyes. Lying there with massive clots in his lungs following surgery for liver cancer, the doctors counted the days.

It appeared that Griffiths, who had been blown up, shot at, witnessed killing on an apocalyptic scale and danced with fate for 40 years, had finally run out of chances. Nobody had ever survived such post-operative complications.

But Griffiths, whose personal philosophy is that ``if you are ...

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