Nothing at all.
What happens when we die?
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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.
Being alive on Earth is challenging and I like to believe that whatever happens after is filled with peace and ease.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 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.
Other people get sad.
We watch over those we love.
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My tendency to be avoidant.
An inability to be authentic.
Someone to clean my apartment.
Crashing in an aeroplane into an ocean at night.
To myself for diminishing my gut feelings until quite recently.
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