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[burntbridges]

[This message is preceded by an accidental audio clip from the username "necromantica". It's only a few seconds long, and contains only a single phrase.]

--Oh, bloody hell--

[The clip stays up on the network for an hour or two, before she remembers how to take down mistakes like that.

Several hours later there is an anonymous message, in text:]

I'm curious about everyone's thoughts on death, in this city. It's been so long since I've had new thoughts to hear on the matter.

Are you afraid of death? Would you be less afraid if you were in your home world?

If you had the chance to die briefly and return, just to see what it was like, would you take it?

Do you feel abandoned by those who have died before you? If someone abandoned you, could you forgive them?

Do you believe that corpses are people, or simply objects no longer in use? Should the dead have a say in how their body is used?

Could you love a ghost? Could you even stomach being their friend?

Comments

text; un: s.trevor

[rightly]

I think most people aren't afraid of death so much as what might come after. Or what might not come. We can't fathom nothingness, so it's terrifying to think that it might be all we'll get after death.

Each world might be different in that aspect, though. In some realities people might end up having a life after death. Heaven, reincarnation, anything. I didn't experience any of these things, not that I can remember. I simply died.

[burntbridges]

I don't think you're wrong. Knowing what comes after makes it so much easier to accept death as a bump in the road.

The afterlife in this world is very much like my home - it is a place where people exist and can be visited, living in their own eternal dream. It's much better than simply ceasing to exist... but my own death was rather horrible, so I think I would have preferred simply dying.

Though, currently, I much prefer being alive again.

[rightly]

If anything comes after. Suppose that's what makes it difficult for most people.

We have no proven afterlife, where I am from. Some people believe in that sort of thing, depending on their religion. Heaven, for instance. Turning into spirits, or being born again, with a new body and a new life. But no one truly knows for sure what happens.

I'll have to agree with that. Even if I can't go back to my world, this certainly beats the alternative.

[burntbridges]

How did you die, exactly? If you don't mind me asking. I know some people can be put off by the subject but I find it rather fascinating to speak to others who have died.

[rightly]

An incident involving an airplane.

[ Not an accident, not really, but he doesn't really feel like sharing about how he pretty much killed himself, even if he did so to save other people. ]

What about yourself?