What happens when we die?

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Recorded Bobbi Brown said elsewhere, not written here
I think our kids take our stuff!

The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗

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Oh, man. Well, I hope when we die, it’s the same as before we were born. No one’s really frightened of that enormous, infinite blackness before we were born. No one sits there thinking, “Oh, God, how awful. I was nothing.” So I don’t really see why we should be frightened of that after we die, as long as it is black. I really don’t want to be up there on a cloud playing a harp, meeting some of the people I’ve hated in my life. I can’t imagine a greater nightmare. That would be hell, in fact.
Recorded The Talks, 7 May 2025 source ↗
I like to think that my friends, my auntie and my mum are up there having a big party and that I could join them.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 April 2024 source ↗

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