Robert De Niro
Actor
In my sleep. And I don’t think about it. It’ll be what it’ll be.
How would you like to die?
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
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.
Surrounded by my great-great-grandchildren.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2017 source ↗
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Stephen Fry
Actor, writer and broadcaster
Over two weeks, in a pleasant fug of palliative morphine if necessary. Just time to say a cheerful good-bye to everyone.
Cory Taylor
Novelist and screenwriter
As far as I can tell, I’ll either succumb to some opportunistic infection, for which I’ve refused antibiotics in advance, or, having similarly declined forced feeding, I’ll starve to death. ... I don’t know how long it takes to die of starvation, or whether it hurts, but I dread it, just as I dread my sons watching me go like that. Because that is what they will remember, their mother reduced to a bag of bones.
Zadie Smith
Novelist and essayist
Oblivious to the event or on the brink of a genuine religious conversion.
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View profile →I had to ask people about this, because I couldn’t think of anything, and the consensus seems to be: a general lack of self-awareness.
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