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> “To be or not to be,” said Hamlet, prince of Denmark, “that is the question.” Yesterday, Hamlet’s creator was; today, he is not. Of that there is no question.

OK, so I'm moved to quote Samuel Butler:

> To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

I got that (as I recall) from Peter Watts' Echopraxia.

It's rather comforting, because I can always imagine that I will awaken ;)



When I wake up and my first thought is "I'm alive!" It's actually going to be a good day.


Right. And when my first thought is "WTF?", it helps to think "At least I'm alive!" ;)


That's beautiful. The thought of dying scares me though because I just hate the idea that it will happen in the middle of an important thought.


right, if you were in the middle of solving P versus NP it would suck to be hit by a lighting bolt.




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