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.
We become fertiliser.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 12 October 2024 source ↗
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.
I don’t know and I don’t really care – I’ll be dead.
I would like to believe that you reunite with the people you love the most.
I don’t know and I don’t really care, because I’ll be dead, so it won’t really matter.
Failure, being caught out, making an idiot of myself.
Every time I play tennis I come back with a fresh injury.
Professional footballer for Tottenham, or train driver.
I’ve had motorcycle accidents – I had one where I ended up in intensive care. But if you are on a frontline – which I have been – and people start shooting at you – which they have done – you put yourself in quite considerable danger. So: on a moving frontline in northern Afghanistan in 2001.
Children’s underwear department at Marks & Spencer, Oxford Circus. I was 16 years old, earning money in my summer holidays.
Impatience and vanity.
Winston Churchill, Jon Snow, Sarah Perry, Hugh Skinner, Layton Williams, Sam Ryder
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