Marina Abramović
Performance artist
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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.
We finally get to be with Jesus, face to face.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2026 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 51 →I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
I have never been able to become an atheist and, even though I know it is completely irrational and cannot be backed up, I think when I die I’m going to glory.
We become fertiliser.
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View profile →Light of the Almighty in my heart.
Holding the hand of some random lady at an airport who I mistook for my wife, Shara.
Faith-filled, never-give-up man.
Resilience, courage and kindness, as compassionate points to follow.
An apocalypse escape vessel – a steel hull ice-capable sailing boat for all the family that has almost zero electronics and is manual operation throughout – armed with an array of weaponry.
I love and admire Julia Roberts, one of our Running Wild guests, for the way she has a few close friends, is loyal to her family, doesn’t believe in all the fame stuff and can laugh at herself.
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