Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 March 2016 source ↗
I don't want to die. I don't think I'm going to die…but we all have to die. Since I do, I hope I live on in the hearts and minds of people.
Read incorrectly, that sounds like a threat. No thanks, Vanity Fair !
That process depends on what you are dying of. The body can fail in ways that are extremely distressing, slowly and painfully, demanding much stoicism, or it can switch off with little more than a flash of dizziness. In my family we seem to have been uncommonly lucky in that respect. There was the 82-year-old uncle who was at a meet of the Norwich Stag Hounds, enjoying a drink with friends, when crash! And he fell off his horse, dead. There was the cousin in her eighties who fell dead as she was filling a kettle to make tea, and the other cousin, 98, who slipped away so gently that the sister who was holding her hand didn’t realise that she had stopped breathing.
Sufficiently well to see Johnson and Truss and then two or three days later, she’s dead. I thought, that’s fantastic. That’s something to celebrate. That’s a great death.
Overall I’d have to say my earnestness.
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
That they won’t let me hide.
Malala Yousafzai, Martina Navratilova, Misty Copeland, and Hillary Clinton.
A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.
Being inside and watching really bad weather outside … and, if it’s after 5:30 P.M., with a glass of Chardonnay in hand.
Audra McDonald, Diane Keaton, Dolly Parton, Eugene Levy, Helena Bonham Carter, Julie Taymor
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