Gloria Steinem.
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What song would you like played at your funeral?
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
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Anyone who is risking their life to cross a body of water with their family to escape war.
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Aretha Franklin. I mean, she’s Aretha! That says it all.
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Shweta Punj, Most Powerful Women in Business 2011, Business Today, 18 September 2011
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The Importance Of Being Idle by Oasis. I’m in the video, which is basically my own funeral, so it’d be nice and macabre.
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That things didn’t get better.
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