Because I Couldn' Stop for Death

[ceasetoexist]

[Well Pokey has had a busy week. Tripping balls over hallucinogenic gas. Bothering a bunch of people and running through their yards as he tried to get away from his hallucination. Getting beaten to death. Beating to death the drone of the person who beat him to death. Getting droned for beating that person to death.

Needless to say, getting killed and then killing someone in the span of a few days has brought a question to mind.]

Hey. Yeah. I’m curious.

Like I know we don’t die here, not really since we come back…what do you all think happens to us after we really do die? Like, do you believe in a Heaven and Hell and all that jazz, or something else, or nothing at all?

Comments

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

For the majority. Others... others may be given the chance to fight for their existence. Most fail.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Huh. What would you even do after you die? What'd be the point of fighting?

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

Many die before their time... by some random happenstance or misfortune. Either way, they are not prepared to welcome oblivion.

So they play a game with the Reaper with their Soul on the line.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

That's stupid.

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

Why is that?

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

The Grim Reaper and Souls don't exist.

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

Not in the sense you're most likely familiar with, no.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Okay fine.

So how do they exist?

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

In my home world, as I cannot speak for others, the Grim Reaper is not the skeletal, hooded entity wielding a scythe. Instead the Reapers are plural, an organization made up of the deceased. They simply exist to administer the Game.

I only say this with certainty because I have experienced it myself.

As for Soul ... well, perhaps I was just being figurative.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Okay. So who started this game you're talking about?

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

[A thoughtful 'hmmm'.]

I'm afraid I don't know. The Game has been around far longer than myself.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Huh.

So there's no "God" or anything where you're from, then? Just this Game?

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

There is only He who creates and maintains the Game who could be considered God-like.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

And you just said you don't know who that is, right?

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

I do not know who initially started the concept of the Reaper's Game. Different regions have different Rulers, and by that regard, they're going to have different Games.

As for my own district? Yes, I know who created that Game.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Huh.

Guess it doesn't really matter since I wouldn't know him, but it must help to know what's going on there.

ffft. I'm done changing this now. Sory!

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

[If Pokey does know rulethegame I feel sorry for him.]

Few only have the honor of meeting Him. I believe myself to be quite fortunate.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

[Pokey caught him when he was dragging his gay couch home, but that's the extent of it.]

Always better to have info then not have it.

[anguiscantus.livejournal.com]

Agreed.