The question
What kind of death would you consider a good one?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.
American singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
Singing onstage—and everyone walking around me saying, “Look how happy she looks.”
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 October 2012 source ↗
Quickly and by surprise. I don’t want the specter of death to linger.
I don't want to die. I don't think I'm going to die…but we all have to die. Since I do, I hope I live on in the hearts and minds of people.
Quickly, without warning, maybe even in my sleep, and while we're putting in requests: before I lose my mind and my ability to gallop across the countryside on horseback.
If needed—a doctor-assisted death.
Any person trying to uplift mankind.
Well, I’m proud of all of them. I think the one that’s most personal to me is the lil’ Coat of Many Colors, because it talks about my mom, my parents, and kind of gives you an insight. It also covers bullying, acceptance and all that.
Flipping my wig.
A big loaded baked potato and a good book with time to eat it and read it.
The fact that sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor.
Dishonesty and being late for appointments.
Robert De Niro, Eugene Levy, Patrick Stewart, Helena Bonham Carter, Stephen Fry, Diane Keaton
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