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 think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
Hopefully we have life in the minds and hearts of the people we interacted with.
I am so curious. We had my son christened because there may be a god but, equally, my partner is a science teacher, so I am also completely open to the possibility that nothing happens.
Disneyland x a million.
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.
Nothing. I’m curious how things will evolve.
A piece of scenery fell on my head during Richard II at the Globe theatre in 2019. I was very badly hurt.
Curious, kind and frustrating – because I ask too many questions.
If you’re a mother, you are embarrassing. Is that not just the way?
Ignorance and unwillingness to learn.
I tried my best.
Bear Grylls, Marina Abramović, Marcus Mumford, Meghann Fahy, Diana Athill, Hugh Grant
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