Ashley’s Reviews > We Won't All Survive > Status Update

There is no truth to be discovered in safety. If you have any expectation of rescue, part of you will hold back. Only when every layer of comfort and security is stripped away will the true raw heart of your courage be tested.

I think some people, when they die - or even before they die - they stick around not as ghosts, but by sort of infecting the people they come in contact with.

Entropy. We’re complex systems. A thousand things have to go right for us to be alive and sentient, and anything going wrong disrupts that system. Death is just things getting out of joint enough that the system that is you isn’t there anymore. All the pieces might still be around, but rearrange them and you aren’t there anymore.