7 [@necromantica/anonymous: audio/text]

[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; @mementomori

[fatedcontract]

Death isn't scary. I never thought it was anyway, and it helped. Being ready to die is the only way to use my Persona. I'm not afraid now either, but I'd rather be dead back home than dead here. At least my death serves a purpose there.

Dying was never their fault. [Shinji, his parents.] So, yeah, I'd forgive them.

Can't really say much about corpses. I mean, they aren't that person anymore, what made them who they are is gone, right? I don't know though.

I never met a ghost, might be cool though.

This is really dark for most people. We haven't met but are you alright?

video | un: undertaker

[somakemelaugh]

[He still hates using text and he's fascinated with that he can actually see faces clearly while he speaks on these devices, because it's so close to him and not at least five feet away, so have this face looking back at you though you killed the feed.]

I can tell you a lot about death. Spent a lot of my time around it. Decades, in fact. I don't know what it's like in your world, but I can only assume it's the same as mine. I was a mortician back home and I'm something like that here, but there's been no business to speak of for it in this world. But there are ghosts. There is a life after death. I see it every day.

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.

Text; UN: blinded.by.light

[soulsflight]

I'm not afraid to die. That doesn't mean I'm chasing danger recklessly. I have plenty of people to live for and I know there is more for me in the future.

(The next question hits home. She decides to be perfectly honest, though her answer lacks detail.)

I was given the chance to be reborn in a new world. I took it and I don't regret the decision.

At one time I did feel abandoned. I was angry and confused. (The death of her parents had been a nasty shock.) But I know better now. I will remember those who have passed before me and carry on in their stead. There isn't anything to forgive.

(She pauses and re-reads the rest, frowning.) Corpses should be respected. Their souls have fled, but they are still a piece of those we have lost. How can they have a say? Unless you're talking about a Will?

Yes.

video; un: ghostking

[deathkid]

[ he recognizes the voice. recognizes the username too, and it takes a moment because he's shocked. she'd left but now she's back... he's not sure how that makes him feel. ]

Letha- You're back.

» text, un: stormborn

[ex_jelmazmo599]

Far too many questions to ask of strangers, I think. I can tell you that I've seen those who have died and risen again, enthralled to an abomination.

That should strike fear into one's heart.