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 ↗
The worms get to feast.
When my mother died in my arms, I feel I witnessed her spirit leaving her body, so let’s just wait and see.
I don’t think we’re meant to know.
I am so curious. We had my son christened because there may be a god but, equally, my partner is a science teacher, so I am also completely open to the possibility that nothing happens.
A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
As someone who made people laugh, introduced them to good music and wasn’t too much of a pain in the arse.
Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
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