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 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said elsewhere, not written here
Years ago, before I had my current manager, I was taken advantage of by people I’d trusted with my finances. That’s made me especially sensitive to the prospect of financial ruin. I’m constantly advising young athletes to be vigilant when it comes to whom you trust with your finances.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2020 source ↗

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Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗

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