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.
A nice long rest.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the subject. But then I shall require a still gayer palette than I get here below. I expect orange and vermilion will be the darkest, dullest colours upon it, and beyond them there will be a whole range of wonderful new colours which will delight the celestial eye.
We don’t die. We change realms. Life is eternal. Living is not. Live while you are alive.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
The worms get to feast.
A drummer in a famous band or an astronaut.
Fairly decent bloke.
Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
The Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months.
Having three great daughters, having been on the radio for nearly 50 years and not being dead.
Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
Tom Burke, Winston Churchill, Kerry Godliman, Miriam Margolyes, Kate Humble, Midge Ure
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