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 really hope there is a big pearly gate.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 December 2024 source ↗
I don’t think we’re meant to know.
I hope I’ll find my mother and father in heaven. Only my father would probably say, “You can’t come and live here, boy!”
We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
A Vivienne Westwood & Burberry two-piece suit I bought for a press night. At the time I was: “Yeah, of course I’m going to be a 30-inch waist for the rest of my life.” Now the trousers don’t fit.
Racial and homophobic slurs – the F- and N-words. When I moved to London, people screamed the F-word from their cars, and that stings.
I was a secret shopper and had to do a lot of bookies – Coral and William Hill – all around London. For 18-year-old me looking all fab it was quite scary going in and saying: “Hiya, can I put £4 on No 7 horse, please?” But you got to keep the money when you won.
Fun, fab and fearless.
Patience is not my forte.
Falling flat on my face in Billy Elliot on Boxing Day when I was 14. I fell smack bang at the end of my number. I was mortified.
Esther Freud, Mark Radcliffe, Nick Frost, Rosalind Eleazar, Shobna Gulati, Jon Snow
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