Actor Matthew Langford Perry was born on August 19, 1969, and died on October 28, 2023. His role as Chandler Bing on the NBC comedy Friends (1994–2004) brought him international recognition.

After being placed on a life-supporting ECMO machine, Perry spent two weeks in a coma and five months in hospital and had to use a colostomy bag for nine months. I say in the book that if I did ...