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.
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The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 July 2026 source ↗
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 like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
An inability to see the other side.
I can always see two points of view, which makes it hard to have a row.
My parents died within four days of each other. I was engulfed as I ran from one bedside to another.
Did I behave in the right way?
Not joining the circus.
Small, determined, lucky.
Albert Hammond Jr., Nigel Havers, Russell Mael, Kelly Hoppen, Winston Churchill, Andrea Bocelli
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