What is your greatest fear?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Jamie Lee Curtis said elsewhere, not written here
Not doing the above.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2022 source ↗

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Cory Taylor Novelist and screenwriter
He’s always been the family cook. He’s been feeding me since the day we met. Everything I know about Japanese food I know because of him. So now that’s another pleasure gone, perhaps the greatest. I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones. What it will do to Shin I can’t bear to contemplate.
Recorded Edited extract from Dying: A Memoir, published by Text Publishing, The Guardian, 17 May 2016 source ↗
Olivia de Havilland Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2005 source ↗
Edward Enninful Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 source ↗

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