What is your greatest fear?

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.

Recorded Carrie Fisher said elsewhere, not written here
A bad death . . . fast or slow.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2001 source ↗

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Cybill Shepherd American actress and former model
Dying in a plane crash and having somebody else get top billing.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 June 2008 source ↗
Roger Ebert Film critic
Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.
Recorded Excerpt from Life Itself: A Memoir, published by Salon, 15 September 2011 source ↗
Katie Melua
When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 November 2023 source ↗

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