How would you like to die?

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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.

Recorded Terry Gross said elsewhere, not written here
Swiftly, painlessly, and old.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 August 2012 source ↗

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Simon Boas Aid worker; executive director of Jersey Overseas Aid
My pain is under control and I'm terribly happy - it sounds weird to say, but I'm as happy as I've ever been in my life. I used to think I'd rather be hit by the proverbial bus, but having a couple of months knowing this is coming has really helped me both do the boring 'death-min', but also get my thoughts and prepare myself, and feel so accepting of what's to come. It's been such a great bonus, actually.
Recorded Emma Barnett, BBC Radio 4, Today, as published by BBC News, 4 July 2024 source ↗
Eugene Levy Actor and writer
In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 November 2019 source ↗
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.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 2 March 2018 source ↗
Lily Tomlin Comedian and actor
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗

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