Patrick Stewart
Actor
If needed—a doctor-assisted death.
How would you like to die?
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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What do you value most in your friends?
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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.
Swiftly, painlessly, and old.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 22 August 2012 source ↗
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Danielle Steel
Novelist
Peacefully, in good physical health, sound of mind, still active, at a great age, with my children around me.
Karl Ove Knausgård
Novelist
Self-combusting at a very late age.
John Mellencamp
Singer and songwriter
I need a long and lingering death to make sure that I have time to have a deathbed conversion.
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View profile →The inability to stop talking about themselves when they’re not being interviewed.
A glass of wine, a good dinner with my husband, and a day ahead of me without a deadline is close enough.
Living with severe chronic pain, or forgetting the name of the person I’m interviewing.
Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
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