The worms get to feast.
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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.
Being alive on Earth is challenging and I like to believe that whatever happens after is filled with peace and ease.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗
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David Lynch
Film director, screenwriter and painter
And yet I can’t tell you, for no one can prove what happens on the other side. It’s like anybody’s guess until it happens. You can say, I believe this would happen, but you can’t prove it.
Recorded
Etan Ilfeld, The Etan Ilfeld Podcast / Watkins Magazine, Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine, 28 January 2025
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Nothing at all.
Hopefully we have life in the minds and hearts of the people we interacted with.
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All of the anxious thoughts that you are able to escape during the day that somehow know when you are lying down to relax.
Someone to clean my apartment.
To myself for diminishing my gut feelings until quite recently.
I’ve never really had a horrible job – I liked working at restaurants and being a nanny when I wasn’t acting.
A blood clot in my artery when I was 23.
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