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What kind of death would you consider a good one?

43 answers answered between 2003 and 2024 one of 5 in The Proust Questionnaire

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Read by field Everyone Science and medicine 2 Arts and letters 36 Politics and public life 4 Business and finance 1
Read by age Any age In their forties 4 In their fifties 4 In their sixties 16 Seventy and beyond 18
John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
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.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗
Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser
Sometimes when I’m on a plane, as I often am, the weather is rough and we’re worried about going down. I think: If I hold the hand of the person next to me, I’ll be holding everyone’s hand. Like my dear friend, the late Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, I want to know: I’m going to the other side of the mountain.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗

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