The rest is silence.
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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.
When my mother died in my arms, I feel I witnessed her spirit leaving her body, so let’s just wait and see.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 March 2025 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 53 →Nothing at all.
I think we go back into the earth.
I will let you know when I find out.
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My beautiful silver Jaguar XKR soft-top.
I talk too much.
Watching the Festival of Remembrance last autumn.
If you’d asked me last year, I would have said a knee replacement.
In an audition at the Royal Court, this man called out, “Were you trained?”
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