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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.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 December 2024 source ↗
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!”
We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
I think that we dissolve into the soil and new things sprout from that.
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.
Fun, fab and fearless.
Bad personal hygiene.
Patience is not my forte.
Racial and homophobic slurs – the F- and N-words. When I moved to London, people screamed the F-word from their cars, and that stings.
Dying: I’m too iconic to go.
An extra day in the week when no one can contact you.
Monica Dolan, Justin Hawkins, Sam Ryder, Michelle Collins, Marcus Brigstocke, Frank Bowling
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