How would you like to die?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.

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Recorded Audra McDonald said elsewhere, not written here
In my bed at home at a ripe old age with the knowledge that my children, and grandchildren if I have any, are thriving, happy, and provided for.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 23 August 2023 source ↗

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In my sleep. And I don’t think about it. It’ll be what it’ll be.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 19 February 2013 source ↗
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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