Death & what remains

How would you like to die?

43 answers answered between 2010 and 2024 one of 5 in The Proust Questionnaire

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Read by age Any age In their forties 4 In their fifties 4 In their sixties 17 Seventy and beyond 18
Oliver Sacks Neurologist and writer
It was this celestial splendor that suddenly made me realize how little time, how little life, I had left. My sense of the heavens’ beauty, of eternity, was inseparably mixed for me with a sense of transience — and death. ... I told my friends Kate and Allen, “I would like to see such a sky again when I am dying.” “We’ll wheel you outside,” they said.

Recorded The New York Times, Sunday Review, 24 July 2015 source ↗

Henry Marsh Neurosurgeon and writer
Sufficiently well to see Johnson and Truss and then two or three days later, she’s dead. I thought, that’s fantastic. That’s something to celebrate. That’s a great death.

Recorded Sirin Kale, The Guardian, 5 October 2022 source ↗

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