I like the idea of being atoms that other people can breathe in, and fabulous worm food.
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.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 October 2024 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 56 →I would like to believe that you reunite with the people you love the most.
I don’t think we’re meant to know.
We become fertiliser.
More from Marina Abramović
View profile →Spend your time on something meaningful. Not on parties, and not on taking it easy. That’s not good enough. […] When you’re young, you think: Let’s party, do drugs, drink, waste it all, right? But as you get older, you look at what you’ve accomplished. And when you get old, you’ve run out of time. You have to ask yourself: Why am I here? Can I contribute anything to humanity, to society, my work?
Pretending I’m happy when I’m not.
Last year when I had a pulmonary embolism – it was a very scary time.
To have more time.
That my nose and chin will touch.
Long hair, big nose, large ass.
More on death & what remains
- What would you like to be remembered for? 228 answers
- How close have you come to death? 215 answers
- What song would you like played at your funeral? 179 answers
- If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing? 54 answers
- What would you like to leave your children? 53 answers
- How would you like to die? 46 answers
Also answered this
Monica Dolan, Ben Okri, Alex Lawther, Nick Frost, Diana Athill, Douglas Booth
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All death & what remains questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject