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What kind of death would you consider a good one?

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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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George Saunders Short-story writer and novelist
Read incorrectly, that sounds like a threat. No thanks, Vanity Fair !
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 January 2023 source ↗
T Bone Burnett Musician and record producer
I would like to die in good health, at an old age, in a house on a mountain that looks out over the ocean, dreaming about everyone and everything I have had the impossible good fortune to have loved. Maybe Ralph Stanley is singing “Angel Band.”
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 17 December 2013 source ↗

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