Interview Questions
- Who has been the most important person in your life? Can you tell me about him or her?
- What was the happiest moment of your life? The saddest?
- Who has been the biggest influence on your life? What lessons did that person teach you?
- Who has been the kindest to you in your life?
- What are the most important lessons you’ve learned in life?
- What is your earliest memory?
- What is your favorite memory of me?
- What are the funniest or most embarrassing stories your family tells about you?
- If you could hold on to just one memory from your life forever, what would that be?
- If this was to be our very last conversation, what words of wisdom would you want to pass on to me?
- What are you proudest of in your life?
- When in life have you felt most alone?
- What are your hopes and dreams for what the future holds for me? For my children?
- How has your life been different than what you’d imagined?
- How would you like to be remembered?
- Do you have any regrets?
- What does your future hold?
- Is there anything that you’ve never told me but want to tell me now?
- Is there something about me that you’ve always wanted to know but have never asked?
- Is there any message you want to give to or anything you want to say to your great-great-great grandchildren when they listen to this?