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.
We become fertiliser.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
I would like to believe that you reunite with the people you love the most.
An accounting is given of our lives. Did you give more than you’ve taken? Hurt more people than you’ve helped?
Oh, man. Well, I hope when we die, it’s the same as before we were born. No one’s really frightened of that enormous, infinite blackness before we were born. No one sits there thinking, “Oh, God, how awful. I was nothing.” So I don’t really see why we should be frightened of that after we die, as long as it is black. I really don’t want to be up there on a cloud playing a harp, meeting some of the people I’ve hated in my life. I can’t imagine a greater nightmare. That would be hell, in fact.
Warm and embracing.
Funny, impatient, annoying.
Arrogance and narcissism.
Every time I play tennis I come back with a fresh injury.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
Children’s underwear department at Marks & Spencer, Oxford Circus. I was 16 years old, earning money in my summer holidays.
Winston Churchill, Jon Snow, Monica Dolan, Justin Hawkins, Sam Ryder, Marcus Brigstocke
Search the directory for somebody in particular.