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.
That’s the 64-million-dollar question.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 August 2026 source ↗
We go back from whence we came.
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!”
I will let you know when I find out.
Disneyland x a million.
Nothing at all.
I was about six years old in a market square in Italy and my dad said, “Oh, those shorts would look perfect on you.” So he whipped my trousers off and I hadn’t got any knickers on.
When they don’t tell the truth.
Every actor has the same fear – ie, you’re never going to work again.
Mucking out pigs on a farm when I was 15.
My first wife, because I left her.
Ben Okri, Neil Gaiman, Sarah Perry, Midge Ure, Johannes Radebe, Andrea Bocelli
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