What happens when we die?

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Recorded Frank Bowling said elsewhere, not written here
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!”

The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 June 2026 source ↗

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David Lynch Film director, screenwriter and painter
And yet I can’t tell you, for no one can prove what happens on the other side. It’s like anybody’s guess until it happens. You can say, I believe this would happen, but you can’t prove it.
Recorded Etan Ilfeld, The Etan Ilfeld Podcast / Watkins Magazine, Watkins MIND BODY SPIRIT Magazine, 28 January 2025 source ↗
Justin Hawkins
Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 March 2025 source ↗

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