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 our kids take our stuff!
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗
Earthly life is merely the infancy of our soul. What comes after physical death is, I imagine, like returning home.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
I don’t think we’re meant to know.
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.
Feeling and being unfocused.
Being at our beach house with my family in the Bahamas.
At each of my sons’ weddings.
Safety of loved ones.
I teared up when I did a voiceover for my memoir while talking about my mother-in-law, whom I adored and miss so much.
Nice, direct, loyal.
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