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Submitted to Contest #329
Let me tell you something: being dead sucks. No, really, it is the worst. I mean, sure, you might immediately think I’m talking about losing the “pleasures of the flesh” and all that. Yeah, that gets to you, but six months in – tops – you’re over it. No, it’s the whole existential thing – you’re no longer there. Poof. Gone.The first couple months are the worst of the worst. Let’s say you died a normal death – you know, maybe long battle with cancer, or a heart attack, or you stepped out in front of a bus. Run of the mill death. Those first c...
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