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 go back from whence we came.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 February 2025 source ↗
I don’t think we’re meant to know.
An accounting is given of our lives. Did you give more than you’ve taken? Hurt more people than you’ve helped?
I think we’re definitely gone, but I do think people leave traces everywhere from what they did in life, and live on and continue to make an impact through the ripple effect of that.
I think our kids take our stuff!
My friend Josie Naughton, the co‑founder and CEO of the charity Choose Love, which supports refugees and displaced people. She left her job working for Coldplay to dedicate her life to this cause.
Whenever I’m swimming in the lido at London Fields.
Watching the news. Human life seemed pretty cheap in 2024.
Whenever I walk past an ice-cream shop, I just can’t not buy an ice-cream.
I’ve learned that true love shouldn’t be complicated. It’s the safety and freedom to be seen and celebrated for who you truly are.
I’d give my younger self the lessons I’ve learned over the years, sparing myself the need to figure everything out so publicly.
Jon Snow, Esther Freud, Mark Radcliffe, Rosalind Eleazar, Nick Frost, Shobna Gulati
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