Lily Tomlin: How would you like to die?

How would you like to die?

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.

Recorded Lily Tomlin said elsewhere, not written here

In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗

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Sally Field Actor

When I’m extremely old during a huge family celebration where everyone is playing games and giving pre-written toasts … to me.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 March 2016 source ↗

Terry Pratchett Novelist

I remember what George said and vowed that rather than let Alzheimer's take me, I would take it. I would live my life as ever to the full and die, before the disease mounted its last attack, in my own home, in a chair on the lawn, with a brandy in my hand to wash down whatever modern version of the "Brompton cocktail" some helpful medic could supply. And with Thomas Tallis on my iPod, I would shake hands with Death.

Recorded Edited extract from the Richard Dimbleby Lecture, Shaking Hands With Death, Royal College of Physicians, broadcast on BBC1 on 1 February 2010, The Guardian, 2 February 2010 source ↗

Neil Patrick Harris Actor