They retired shortly after the missed appointment, and I’ll never be able to ask them. I’ve been wondering about what their reasons are everyday since.
Context is they’re very old, love going out to the middle of nowhere and laying down to feel vibrations in the ground. They’re only afraid of their death hurting people around them, so if they’re not dying fighting for social justice, they’ll live out their life to their oldest age.
If you also aren’t afraid to die, could you please explain to me how? I want answers even if it’s from other people.
I believe in a sort of secular afterlife. Death is the end of our own personal subjective experience, but the past is never dead - it’s not even past. Everyone and everything that came before lead to this moment, and all of that history lives in us today. Even when every living memory of us has faded we live on in the historical record and in our material impact on the world - especially today! Lucy was just a collection of bone fragments, we don’t really know that much about her and maybe we never will. Our afterlives will be rich by comparison, we’re extremely lucky to be born in a time where we won’t be forgotten by history. I was here.