002. text; un: anonymous

[holocast]

I understand that there are some among us who have died back in whatever world they may have come from.

As a point of morbid curiosity, what are we supposing happens to those like that when they're removed from this world? Do they simply cease to exist?

Comments

[holocast]

Is that how it is for everyone in your world, or are you a special case? The quotation marks are making me wonder.

[force_a_change]

I can't speak for anyone else from my world, I'm the only one from there that is here after all.

But I guess you could say I'm a special case, since my death isn't what one would call normal.

[holocast]

In what way is it abnormal?

[force_a_change]

Well, I no longer exist. As in I do not have a living form to use to interact with the world, so there was no body or any such thing one would expect from someone dying.

[holocast]

So not existing at all, in the purest sense of the term.

No afterlife for you, either, I assume.

[force_a_change]

Well... Unless one considers the afterlife like being stuck among a bunch of old fogeys who can't make any solid decisions without all of them agreeing on it.

But yes, no afterlife for me if I end up leaving this place.

[holocast]

Well, that's...depressing. On all counts.

[force_a_change]

I try not to dwell on it, if that helps?

[holocast]

I can't say I blame you for it.

[force_a_change]

Hahaha, well hopefully your case, or whomever's case that brought you to post this, isn't quite so bad.

[holocast]

I don't think there's anything for me, either. Though my critical existence failure was slightly less complete than yours seems to have been.

[force_a_change]

That's unfortunate. And I would hope no one has anything like my experience, it wasn't what you'd call "fun" after all.

[holocast]

Fortunately, I don't remember mine.

[force_a_change]

Then I must say you're very lucky, sir... Or ma'am.

[Since the person she is talking to is anonymous after all.]

[holocast]

As lucky as a dead person can be. Someone has mentioned what happened to me. It doesn't sound pleasant.

[force_a_change]

Oh dear, I think that would be more destressing. Being told by another how you die.

[holocast]

I technically knew how; I was fairly unambiguously going to die. It was just a bit strange having it confirmed so blatantly - the most I remember is immediately before it happened, and then suddenly I was here. It didn't feel like anything; I was just there and then suddenly I wasn't.

[force_a_change]

Either way, if I was you I'd find it distressing.

[holocast]

It is what it is. I suppose it helps that I knew it was inevitable. I didn't exactly fear dying.

[force_a_change]

Ah. Well, I can agree with that. Not fearing death that is.

[holocast]

It seems a senseless thing to be afraid of. It's inevitable, and there isn't much sense in pretending it isn't. It just comes for some before they would prefer it to.

[force_a_change]

Of course, I also don't see a reason to get mad about it? It will happen to everyone eventually.

[holocast]

Exactly. It's not the sort of sentiment I would express to people's faces, but it's not something that I've been particularly deluded about for a while.