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 think we become stars.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 November 2025 source ↗
I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
I think we go back into the earth.
We become fertiliser.
We go back from whence we came.
One time an engineer said, “I always forget your frequency is at the same level as a crying baby.” I think he was on to something, because I have been told to shush many times over the years.
Like a very full heart and a flip in my stomach when I see him.
Three times when I lived in New York, I missed seeing David Bowie in real life by moments.
Fewer night shifts.
Too high an expectation of others and myself.
I’m at my happiest in the ocean, and even better if my husband is there throwing me around.
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