Through a series of mistakes in write-ups, I’d like to be remembered for something like being Britain’s finest downhill skier or inventing pickled onions.
What would you like to be remembered for?
Question
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
Question
What does love feel like?
Relationships
Question
What keeps you awake at night?
Daily life
Question
Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
Failure & regret
Question
What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Question
How close have you come to death?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As devastatingly talented, gorgeous and wise, but I’m not betting on it.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 January 2021 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 214 →
Jane Asher
English actress and author
If my children remember me as fondly as I remember my mum, that would be a treat.
As not being a total bollix.
Louis Walsh
Irish music manager and television personality
I’d like people to say, “Well, he was a bit odd, he was a bit funny.”
More from Krishnan Guru-Murthy
View profile →I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.
A chihuahua giving you a cuddle.
My daughter talking to her friends even though I thought I’d disabled her devices.
Every offended interviewee who thought I was asking hard questions for some personal reason. It’s never personal.
I did a terrible job of fixing the downstairs loo once.
I’ve dodged a couple of bullets in dodgy war zones, but I suspect the closest I’ve come to death was a reckless, drunken brush with a waltzer at a student funfair. It nearly chopped me in half.
More on death & what remains
- How close have you come to death? 209 answers
- What song would you like played at your funeral? 178 answers
- If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing? 54 answers
- What happens when we die? 51 answers
- What would you like to leave your children? 44 answers
- How would you like to die? 44 answers
Also answered this
Anita Rani, Simon Boas, Mohamed ElBaradei, Clive Myrie, John Prescott, Barack Obama
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All death & what remains questions
- The 73 Questions questionnaire — 5 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject