Being alive on Earth is challenging and I like to believe that whatever happens after is filled with peace and ease.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 August 2025 source ↗
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View all 53 →I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
We go back from whence we came.
We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
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A hand-painted beaded dress from New York. It weighs about 16lb and cost me £4,000, 30 years ago.
Stay out of other people’s business.
I don’t say that I’m perfect but there’s nothing that I deplore.
Like you’ve got no other thought in your head.
For bringing positivity to people.
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