I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Nothing at all.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 source ↗
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Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
I like the idea of being atoms that other people can breathe in, and fabulous worm food.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
When my kids ask, “What happens when we die?” I say, “Do you remember the place you were in before you were born? I think we go back there.”
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Facebook and the need to pee.
On tour during Christmas vacation at Cambridge with its European Theatre Group, playing Shakespeare. I knew it was the best time of my life.
When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
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