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.
You have to go to the end of the line.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 May 2025 source ↗
I think our kids take our stuff!
I really hope there is a big pearly gate.
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself. But there's a big but which enters in here. I am much more conscious than I ever was, for obvious reasons, of what it will mean to people left behind once I'm dead. It won't mean anything for me. But it will mean a lot to them. ... So in one curious way I've come to believe in the afterlife as a place where I still have moral responsibilities, just as I do in this life except that I can only exercise them before I get there. Once I get there, it'll be too late.
One handsome dude.
Watching all of Fellini’s movies one summer.
Shucking oysters one summer in Nice.
The morality of stealing that red liquorice.
Watching Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
Signing away the rights to my life story to a major motion-picture company for a sum that I have since been told was way below the market rate.
Richard Schiff, Jenny Diski, Douglas Booth, Diana Athill, Alex Lawther, Nick Frost
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