Andrew Weil: What is your greatest fear? — FLAPSS

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What is your greatest fear?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

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Andrew Weil

Physician; founder of the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

Society’s inability to encourage people to make better lifestyle choices that really prevent disease and promote health.

Katy Koontz, Unity Magazine, 1 August 2022 source ↗

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To be stuck in the past.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 May 2026 source ↗

Losing my memory.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2017 source ↗

Alan Cumming Scottish actor, producer, director, writer and presenter

Dying on the same day as someone much more famous than me.

Recorded Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2009 source ↗

Marina Diamandis

Not trying something I really want to do.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 June 2025 source ↗

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