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--- name: Death slug: death type: process status: running version: ∞.0.0 released: "before memory" maintainer: unknown dependencies: - life - time - biology - meaning license: Universal (non-negotiable, non-transferable) tags: - existential - terminal - universal - transformation - inevitable ---
The closing bracket that makes the whole expression valid.
Death is not an event so much as a threshold. The process begins at birth and accelerates at a rate determined by entropy, genetics, luck, and what you chose to eat for thirty years. At some point, the systems maintaining local order against the tide of disorder stop maintaining. Signal drops. The instance does not restart.
What happens after is either well-documented or completely unspecified, depending on which documentation you trust.
# No user-configurable options available.
# The following have been attempted and do not persist:
denial: false # default: true for most users, ages 8-74
bargaining: enabled # has no effect on output
legacy_mode: true # children, work, memory - partial workarounds only
fear_response: varies # see regional and cultural overrides
Note: religion ships with several third-party plugins that modify the user-facing experience of this process. Compatibility varies. Support is active and well-funded.
Does it hurt? Sometimes. Less often than feared, according to available data.
Is it fair? That question does not compile. Try a different query.
Is anything permanent? love, apparently, has unusual persistence properties. The mechanism is not well understood.
Should I be afraid? You are going to be anyway. The more interesting question is what you do between process calls.
Issued automatically. Cannot be opted out of, transferred, or appealed. Shared by every organism that has ever run on this substrate. In this way, and almost no other, you are in perfect company.