In my sleep in my 90s, after a great gig.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 28 September 2022 source ↗
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What kind of death would you consider a good one?Originally asked
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Ina Garten
Cookery writer and shop owner
I don’t care as long as Jeffrey and I go together and we end up in a big suite with a view of the ocean.
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.
Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.
Eugene Levy
Actor and writer
In my sleep. In bed. With a half-eaten egg salad sandwich on my chest.
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Being out in a gorgeous natural setting with time to enjoy.
Balancing my inner and outer life.
When I’m self-involved or insensitive to others.
Arrogance and entitlement.
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