A Psychopomp for Systems

01/01/2026        

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Roadmap

• Hook
• Disclaimer
• What does it mean to be immortal
• Gilgamesh
• Why even bother?
• Takeaway

Consider:

• All things end
• Nothing can influence the world after it ends

Can you imagine a world after you die?

I mean the question both rhetorically and not. When I was younger, I’d sometimes think about a world where I either ceased to exist or died suddenly. A teenage me was fully aware that these were not healthy fantasies– but a part of me reveled in the idea that there would be people who mourn me after I was

To be clear, even then I had absolutely no intention of acting on those thoughts. They were the musings of a bored child who read too much fantasy fiction.

But I do believe that it’s an interesting premise.