I really should have titled this “Why Live?” If you have tasted existence as I described it, death is no great calamity to you. Don’t let this lead you into the mistake of hastening your death. Staying alive is a sound strategic move. (Ignore any arguments for staying alive based on the claim that staying alive is fun. That is like saying tea is tea.) Death is inevitable. Explore life as much as you can; live it out, if only to check if there’s any value in it. Don’t be in a hurry to die.

It’s not easy, however. Some things that may help: entertaining yourself in the realm of thought by flinging your body down hard on the ground, writhing like a fish out of water, spinning at a very high rate around your vertical axis or grabbing your planet and flinging it away. Such diversions release dangerous accretions of energy. I frequently employ these tactics to sublimate the urge to run amok and shatter myself against some object.

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