Nick Frost: What do you believe happens when we die?

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.

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

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.”

The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 January 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

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Shobna Gulati

I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗

Marcus Mumford

Disneyland x a million.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 February 2026 source ↗

Kate Humble

The worms get to feast.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 December 2023 source ↗

Diana Athill Editor and memoirist

The contributor to the programme I remember with the most pleasure is the man who said that not existing for thousands and thousands of years before his birth had never worried him for a moment, so why should going back into non-existence at this death cause him dismay? Everyone laughed when he said that and so did I, and as I laughed I thought: “Dead right!”

Recorded The Guardian, 23 September 2014 source ↗