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.
We finally get to be with Jesus, face to face.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2026 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.
Nothing at all.
Our friends are sad and miss us for a bit but, hopefully, they find other people at the party.
I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
Becoming a father.
The Bare Necessities.
When it’s just us as a family on our island hideaway in Wales.
It’s all a gift. So be grateful for every day.
Why is your nose so wonky?
An apocalypse escape vessel – a steel hull ice-capable sailing boat for all the family that has almost zero electronics and is manual operation throughout – armed with an array of weaponry.
Meghann Fahy, Marcus Mumford, Marina Abramović, Diana Athill, Charles Collingwood, Layton Williams
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