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 ↗
Other people get sad.
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.
A nice long rest.
We go back from whence we came.
People not remembering who I am.
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.
Is that the final mix?
Watching Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal.
That Sparks predates the Beatles and it’s kind of all too obvious where they got a lot of their inspiration.
A pearl diver in Japan.
Billy Crudup, Hugh Skinner, Su Pollard, Jason Donovan, Douglas Booth, Alex Lawther
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