Stage 5: Acceptance
"...back when I was dead"
"you weren't dead you just weren't born yet"
"well if the opposite of alive is dead, and I wasn't alive then I must've been dead"
This is a conversation I had with my mom when I was in second grade and was being picked up from my grandma's house or something. I was attempting to be senselessly clever about talking about things that happened in the 80s. That black and white reasoning however brings up a good point. The world after you die is going to feel exactly like it did before you were born and that's about the most comforting thing I can come up with. Aside from "nature's been killing things for as long as it's existed, it's pretty good at it by now"
Don't get me wrong, this doesn't bring my universe to equilibrium somewhere prior to 1/22 it just means I'm not trying to imagine my own death anymore and that's a significant bonus.
"you weren't dead you just weren't born yet"
"well if the opposite of alive is dead, and I wasn't alive then I must've been dead"
This is a conversation I had with my mom when I was in second grade and was being picked up from my grandma's house or something. I was attempting to be senselessly clever about talking about things that happened in the 80s. That black and white reasoning however brings up a good point. The world after you die is going to feel exactly like it did before you were born and that's about the most comforting thing I can come up with. Aside from "nature's been killing things for as long as it's existed, it's pretty good at it by now"
Don't get me wrong, this doesn't bring my universe to equilibrium somewhere prior to 1/22 it just means I'm not trying to imagine my own death anymore and that's a significant bonus.