With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 7 January 2022 source ↗
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What kind of death would you consider a good one?Originally asked
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A fixed final question in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire, repeated verbatim across respondent pages.
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Gayle King
Broadcaster
I’d like to die anytime after the age of 90—in my sleep!
Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist and screenwriter; Nobel laureate in Literature, 2017
Like Joel McCrea’s character at the end of the movie Ride the High Country. (He says something about “entering his house justified,” sits up to take a last look at the scenery, then rolls contentedly out of the frame.) Or like Bill Nighy’s character at the end of our film Living.
Judy Blume
Novelist
Really? Okay, if I have enough time I might go to Switzerland and drink the drink. I believe in euthanasia. What we do for our beloved pets, we should be able to do for our beloved humans or ourselves.
Christopher Hitchens
Essayist, critic and journalist
And even if my voice goes before I do, I shall continue to write polemics against religious delusions, at least until it’s hello darkness my old friend. In which case, why not cancer of the brain? As a terrified, half-aware imbecile, I might even scream for a priest at the close of business, though I hereby state while I am still lucid that the entity thus humiliating itself would not in fact be “me.” (Bear this in mind, in case of any later rumors or fabrications.)
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The thought that I might die with unresolved conflicts.
Wow! Like, the way people mess up language. I mean, it makes me crazy, y’know?
That they don’t give a tinker’s damn about my celebrity.
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