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 ↗
Twenty-one grams of energy goes into the universe.
When my kids ask, “What happens when we die?” I say, “Do you remember the place you were in before you were born? I think we go back there.”
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
I think our kids take our stuff!
Small, determined, lucky.
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.
Sorry is such an underrated word – I use it liberally.
For the words to fly from my fingers as just occasionally they do.
Albert Hammond Jr., Nigel Havers, Russell Mael, Kelly Hoppen, Winston Churchill, Andrea Bocelli
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