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 will let you know when I find out.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 March 2024 source ↗
Earthly life is merely the infancy of our soul. What comes after physical death is, I imagine, like returning home.
No. I mean, it depends on how you look at it. In the sense that we all have a piece of cosmic dust in us from the beginning – The Big Bang – then yes. But no, I don’t believe in heaven or hell.
We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
Other people get sad.
An all-embracing welfare state.
When interviewing Idi Amin of Uganda in 1975, he shouted: “We have ways of dealing with people like you.”
Retirement – I thought it was a bad idea.
“You pinko!” by a Tory minister signing off at the end of an interview with me during the EU referendum campaign.
Self-centredness.
The cheapest available Volvo.
Winston Churchill, Jon Sopel, Marina Abramović, Marcus Mumford, Meghann Fahy, Bear Grylls
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