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.
A nice long rest.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
We finally get to be with Jesus, face to face.
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
An accounting is given of our lives. Did you give more than you’ve taken? Hurt more people than you’ve helped?
A sense of what’s right, a few quid and some nice paintings.
Fairly decent bloke.
When I changed the toner cartridge in my printer all on my own – that was a day of pure euphoria.
The Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
Having three great daughters, having been on the radio for nearly 50 years and not being dead.
Alex Lawther, Jenny Diski, Jon Snow, Esther Freud, Rosalind Eleazar, Nick Frost
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