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.
I think we live on in people’s memories until those memories go.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 October 2025 source ↗
We become fertiliser.
Massive DMT release, your perception of time dilates, you realise you can fly, then it all goes black, and you start again, only this time … you’re a slug.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
I think we’re definitely gone, but I do think people leave traces everywhere from what they did in life, and live on and continue to make an impact through the ripple effect of that.
In recent times, when I was looking after my mum. She would take me on journeys in her mind and I’d travel with her wherever she went. I felt happy that I had the opportunity to have that time despite her illness.
I tried my best.
Nothing. I’m curious how things will evolve.
Ignorance and unwillingness to learn.
A piece of scenery fell on my head during Richard II at the Globe theatre in 2019. I was very badly hurt.
If you’re a mother, you are embarrassing. Is that not just the way?
Jason Donovan, Su Pollard, Hugh Skinner, Douglas Booth, Billy Crudup, Jon Snow
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