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

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Why do you think you wouldn't experience it?

[pinkplumblossom.livejournal.com]

Nations don't die in the same way as humans do, so I'm not sure if there's any sort of afterlife at all waiting for us. If the Roman Empire is any indication, it's possible for us to become ghosts, but that's really all I have to go on.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Well, I know that ghosts...

Wait. What do you mean "nations"?

[pinkplumblossom.livejournal.com]

Well, in this case I'm talking about living personifications of countries and the people who live there. There are a lot of us here in Mayfield.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

What?

But that's...

[He just babbles and mumbles here for a moment. He's really trying to rack his brain over this one. People who are people, but also nations? He remembers Prussia told him something like that, but he thought he was joking. That's just...]

That doesn't make any sense! Are you playing a trick on me?

[pinkplumblossom.livejournal.com]

It's true. We're tied to the land and the people. When our economies are bad, we get sick. When our people go to war, we end up fighting each other. That sort of thing. It's just the way things are in the world I come from. Lots of people have a hard time believing it, I guess.

[godisachild.livejournal.com]

It's kinda hard to swallow, but I've seen loads of weird junk in my world too. So I guess it isn't totally insane.

You're still probably crazy to a little degree, though.

[pinkplumblossom.livejournal.com]

I suppose it comes with the territory.