The question
What would you most want to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A spirit of generosity.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 February 2026 source ↗
A sense of what really matters.
My Siamese cat, which I had freeze-dried after she died. I really think their future partners will like it.
I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
I’ve got no kids, but I’d like us to leave a planet for everyone’s children.
This morning, in a really great conversation with my dad.
I don’t care that much about legacy. Within family I do, but not externally.
“I have it on very good authority he’s a complete cunt.”
One of the first TV appearances that our band made in America, on the Craig Ferguson show. I forgot the lyrics to Little Lion Man and then broke two strings.
Disneyland x a million.
Trying quite hard.
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