I spend a lot of my time thinking about death. Too much time, probably. I'm almost obsessed with it: most of everything I write deals with humans facing death in extreme situations. When all religion failed to take away the sting of it (failed me intellectually, honestly - or I failed it, however you want to tell it) I turned to things like Bushido and Hagakure in hopes of manifesting this sort of contempt for death - a kind of indifference to the certain knowledge of the complete cessation o...