Neil Patrick Harris
Actor
That it all goes away and never comes back.
What is your greatest fear?
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
Death & what remains
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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If you could edit your past, what would you change?
Failure & regret
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What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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.
Losing my family in some way.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 source ↗
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Pain. I told Jeffrey that if I have a really bad headache just pull the plug.
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Outliving my kids – and rats.
Olivia de Havilland
Film actress; twice winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
The loss of physical, financial, and psychological independence.
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