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.
I don’t think we’re meant to know.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗
I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself. But there's a big but which enters in here. I am much more conscious than I ever was, for obvious reasons, of what it will mean to people left behind once I'm dead. It won't mean anything for me. But it will mean a lot to them. ... So in one curious way I've come to believe in the afterlife as a place where I still have moral responsibilities, just as I do in this life except that I can only exercise them before I get there. Once I get there, it'll be too late.
Hopefully we have life in the minds and hearts of the people we interacted with.
I have lots of beliefs about that, but that will have to wait for another interview.
I think we go back into the earth.
Losing my mind.
In the sea, somewhere hot. Looking back at people I love on the beach.
Comparing themselves to other people.
Farting in front of Colin Firth.
The perimenopause.
Loads. All the greats.
Jon Snow, Mark Radcliffe, Esther Freud, Shobna Gulati, Rosalind Eleazar, Nick Frost
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