The question
What do you believe happens when we die?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring late-stage question in The Guardian Q&A, with materially different answers on publisher-hosted pages.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 January 2025 source ↗
I think we’re definitely gone, but I do think people leave traces everywhere from what they did in life, and live on and continue to make an impact through the ripple effect of that.
We watch over those we love.
Oh, man. Well, I hope when we die, it’s the same as before we were born. No one’s really frightened of that enormous, infinite blackness before we were born. No one sits there thinking, “Oh, God, how awful. I was nothing.” So I don’t really see why we should be frightened of that after we die, as long as it is black. I really don’t want to be up there on a cloud playing a harp, meeting some of the people I’ve hated in my life. I can’t imagine a greater nightmare. That would be hell, in fact.
The rest is silence.
As someone who was kind.
It used to be loneliness, and it might still be.
My wife, just in case I’ve done something wrong.
Every morning when I go into our three-year-old’s room. He’s so happy to see you, it’s a moment of heaven.
Absolutely none. I’ve had three run-ups at Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and I conclude it must be boring because I’ve never finished it.
The internet going down – but not just for me, for everyone.
Winston Churchill, Nigel Havers, Russell Mael, Kelly Hoppen, Albert Hammond Jr., Andrea Bocelli
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