Danielle Steel
Novelist
Peacefully, in good physical health, sound of mind, still active, at a great age, with my children around me.
How would you like to die?
Question
What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Identity & self
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.
Like? I have no soft spot, fondness, admiration, respect, attraction, or esteem for death. I am not taken with it or infatuated by it. I carry no torch, have no crush, take no shine to the word or action of death. I don’t have the hots for it, and I don’t dig it, either.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 May 2014 source ↗
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Gayle King
Broadcaster
I’d like to die anytime after the age of 90—in my sleep!
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.
Rita Moreno
Actor, singer and dancer
With a malicious grin that implies I know something you don’t.
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