"No, it certainly does not. Death is as unpredictable as life. One really should be comfortable with the idea it could take them, or anyone else, in a moment's time." Cheerful stuff. But it's said with the kind of calm understanding one uses when commenting on possible weather. It just is and it's something you account for. That's all. A very Yharnamite sensibility, really.

"But again, that is just the body. Tell me, when you die, can you truly imagine all you are, all you know and believe and feel, everything you have become...simply. Vanishing? That the moment your heart stops and your brain quiets, all those thoughts and convictions, those experiences and ideals are gone? Only because a vessel of blood and bone has ceased function?"