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 John Lewis said elsewhere, not written here
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.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗

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Audra McDonald Singer and actor
In my bed at home at a ripe old age with the knowledge that my children, and grandchildren if I have any, are thriving, happy, and provided for.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 August 2023 source ↗
Hans Zimmer Film composer
Showing off onstage, with everyone laughing and applauding.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 8 January 2019 source ↗

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Jim Lawson. Jim Lawson was an unbelievable human being. Born in Ohio. He was a pacifist. He studied Gandhi. He was part of the Methodist Student Movement. He lived in India. He became an organizer for FOR, the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
Recorded Julian Bond, Explorations in Black Leadership interview, Explorations in Black Leadership, University of Virginia source ↗

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