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.
Nothing at all.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 July 2025 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.
An accounting is given of our lives. Did you give more than you’ve taken? Hurt more people than you’ve helped?
The rest is silence.
I am so curious. We had my son christened because there may be a god but, equally, my partner is a science teacher, so I am also completely open to the possibility that nothing happens.
Never to have played at the National or the RSC.
I wanted to be a doctor, like my father.
To my mother for disappointing her. Mummy wanted me to be a different sort of person from who I am, but one can’t change oneself.
Becoming doubly incontinent.
Short. Fat. Jewish.
To experience the utter powerlessness of locked-in syndrome.
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