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 ↗
Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
A nice long rest.
I really hope there is a big pearly gate.
You have to go to the end of the line.
Three times when I lived in New York, I missed seeing David Bowie in real life by moments.
In the Pet Shop Boys song Being Boring they’ve a great line that says “I never dreamed that I would get to be the creature that I always meant to be”. And I feel I am, so that’s great.
Compulsory headphones for phone users in public.
Like a very full heart and a flip in my stomach when I see him.
I lived in New York during 9/11 and worked a couple of blocks away from the twin towers. I was looking when the first tower exploded and then when the second plane flew in and, before we had to evacuate, I did see people jump to their death.
Too high an expectation of others and myself.
Tony Judt, Jon Sopel, Kate Humble, Richard Eyre, Bobbi Brown, Kerry Godliman
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