• Question: What do you think happens when you die?

    Asked by anon-187172 to Stewart, Miriam, Marton, Laura, Kathryn, David on 13 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Stewart Martin-Haugh

      Stewart Martin-Haugh answered on 13 Nov 2018:

      Personally I believe nothing happens. I don’t believe in the existence of a soul or a life after death. This is sad, but it also means you have to make the most of it while you’re here.

      Of course, no one knows for sure – 107 billion people have died since the start of humankind, and none of them have managed to communicate with us, if there is a life after death.

      I really enjoyed the Netflix programme The Good Place, which thinks about a lot of this stuff.

    • Photo: Miriam Hogg

      Miriam Hogg answered on 16 Nov 2018:

      I don’t think anything happens personally.
      But many religions believe in some kind of afterlife or reincarnation (where you come back to earth but in a different form, as an animal or plant).
      Unfortunately we have no way to know if there is anything after death or not. So we just don’t know!

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