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As the group passed time in the large sunken tub in the master bedroom Fonda brought up his nearly fatal self-inflicted childhood gunshot accident, writing later that he was trying to comfort a frightened George Harrison.

Fonda said that he knew what it was like to be dead.

Lennon snapped, " Listen mate, shut up about that stuff ", and " You're making me feel like I've never been born.

" Lennon explained, " We didn't want to hear about that!

We were on an acid trip and the sun was shining and the girls were dancing ( some from Playboy, I believe ) and the whole thing was really beautiful and Sixties.

And this guy-who I really didn't know, he hadn't made Easy Rider or anything-kept coming over, wearing shades, saying ' I know what it's like to be dead ,' and we kept leaving him because he was so boring.

It was scary, when you're flying high: ' Don't tell me about it.

I don't want to know what it's like to be dead!

'" "... e was showing us his bullet wound.

He was very uncool ," Harrison added.