That I’ll die worrying.
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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.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
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Overcooking pasta for my Italian family in Napoli – they would kill me.
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On my deathbed thinking I wish I would have done something that I didn’t do.
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My children ending up anything like me.
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Nothing at all.
When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
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