Jennifer Saunders thinks an afterlife would be "too complicated."
Jennifer Saunders does not believe in the idea of an afterlife
The 64-year-old comedienne prefers to think that death is simply akin to the "clicking off of a light" as she mused that life "loses its libido" with age and was shocked to realise she had become someone who has "no clue" about the latest music stars.
Speaking on the 'Where There's a Will There's a Wake' podcast, she said: "It would be too complicated to have an afterlife. Do people stay the age they are? The old people aren't gonna make it! I think it will just be a click off of the light, I think. I think that's more - as you get older, a lot of things click off gradually. When I was in my thirties, I thought 'Imagine if I just become a person who only listens to Radio 4.' And then it happened. I only listen to Radio 4. You can't in your head imagine that. Now, I can only have music on a little bit of the time but if it's on all the time, I can't think. I haven't got a clue about rappers! I never thought that would happen. But it just goes and I think that's what happens as you get older. It's not that life becomes less important but things become less important until you can just slide away happily. It's almost that life loses its libido, there's not as much as there was."
The 'Absolutely Fabulous' star - who has daughters Ella, 37, Beattie, 35, and 32-year-old Freya with husband Ade Edmondson - went on to add that she would like to die in her sleep surrounded by loved ones whilst on drugs as she explained at her wish for a "dramatic" exit has waned over the years.
When asked by host Kathy Burke to imagine a future where she had died, she said: "I think in the olden days there was a set funeral you knew you were going to get but nowadays because people aren't so religious you can sort of make it up as you go along. [In the future], I died in my sleep.
"I think that's how I'd like to go. When you're young you think 'I want to jump out of an aeroplane without a parachute or something - splat!' I think as you get older and you're crumbling back into the earth anyway, it doesn't seem to matter so much. I'd like to die having said goodbye, that's quite important. I'd like to die in a way that's not messy for other people! I'd have liked to have said goodbye and just go to sleep on a lovely cloud of morphine. Drugs? Yes please! But not in hospital! At home, on morphine."
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