Al Franken
Senator and comedian
Surrounded by my great-great-grandchildren.
How would you like to die?
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Time & hindsight
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Identity & self
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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.
How doesn’t matter—it’s when that matters. When I’m ready!
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 June 2014 source ↗
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Sally Mann
Photographer
Quickly, without warning, maybe even in my sleep, and while we're putting in requests: before I lose my mind and my ability to gallop across the countryside on horseback.
Karl Ove Knausgård
Novelist
Self-combusting at a very late age.
Danielle Steel
Novelist
Peacefully, in good physical health, sound of mind, still active, at a great age, with my children around me.
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Punctuality (outside of work, of course).
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