I Will Die Soon - Ch. 62
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It has just dawned upon me that this whole "this body will inevitably die, but if you can avoid death, you can continue living in it" is a bloody farce.
All bodies will inevitably die. She hasn't defined "soon". Up to now, I think the shortest was the criminal punished by the hammer assassin, and the longest was the one month he lived in juvie.
We also know "avoiding death" is vague as hell and a sham. It's not "avoid this body's original death and go on to die of natural causes in old age". Hyuk Jin proves it: he avoided suicide from bullying, only to be killed by the former bully. Death will keep hounding him no matter how many times he avoids her.
So Death essentially condemned him to spend the entire time he stays in a body, even if it were to be years, looking over his shoulder and paralysed by fear of imminent death. Avoiding to enter a relationship, spill the beans and rejoin his mother, even do long-term life planning like buying a house or saving for retirement.
In other words, endless psychological torture by a supernatural bitch. No wonder he wants to die four more times and be done with this.
As for this goddamn cliffhanger, my guess is that he will die instantly and Death will refuse to tell him whether his companion lived or died. Contrarily to Jisoo, he won't have time to ascertain Jihoon's death or escape.
All bodies will inevitably die. She hasn't defined "soon". Up to now, I think the shortest was the criminal punished by the hammer assassin, and the longest was the one month he lived in juvie.
We also know "avoiding death" is vague as hell and a sham. It's not "avoid this body's original death and go on to die of natural causes in old age". Hyuk Jin proves it: he avoided suicide from bullying, only to be killed by the former bully. Death will keep hounding him no matter how many times he avoids her.
So Death essentially condemned him to spend the entire time he stays in a body, even if it were to be years, looking over his shoulder and paralysed by fear of imminent death. Avoiding to enter a relationship, spill the beans and rejoin his mother, even do long-term life planning like buying a house or saving for retirement.
In other words, endless psychological torture by a supernatural bitch. No wonder he wants to die four more times and be done with this.
As for this goddamn cliffhanger, my guess is that he will die instantly and Death will refuse to tell him whether his companion lived or died. Contrarily to Jisoo, he won't have time to ascertain Jihoon's death or escape.
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@Kendama idk if you missed it or just forgot, but whole premise of this is that personification of Death read his suicide note and got angry with his bullshit excuses, thus she decided to punish him. What you saying in the only works as far as logic goes. MC is deluded himself many times thinking it's Deaths "playing with him", or manipulating events againts his favors, but truth is Death is inevitable, and he gets into bodies that are most of the times placed in extreme situations, being not the brightest mind mc is, he only can calculate so much possibilities, before something kills him from blind spot, because he was too focused on some other aspect he deemed important at that time.
Real question is "Is there more to this story?", I'm enjoying it for what it is, but potential progress is possible, who could've thought, I only started this cause of nice looking "Death", lol
Real question is "Is there more to this story?", I'm enjoying it for what it is, but potential progress is possible, who could've thought, I only started this cause of nice looking "Death", lol
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@Big_Boss My colleague who typesets this raised objections to my view similar to yours and this is how I responded:
"Even conceding that you're right doesn't change the fact that since she hasn't told him how many times he has to avoid death to go on living in that body (i.e., how many different endings he has to probe before finding the one in which he survives), in practice he will experience anxiety over not knowing. We've already seen it in this chapter: he considered maybe thinking of looking for a girlfriend, but decided against it because he feels the mere thought of it means death is probably approaching. This implies he has an inkling that Death is a sadist who dangles the prize just out of his reach. Given that some of his deaths have been pretty pointless and out of the blue (the magician, the car crash, the gangster, the delinquent), I can't blame him for thinking like that.
That thought alone seems enough to make any hypothetical situation in which he manages to stay in a body an impaired life."
So I agree with you. Death may not be playing with him deliberately. But the vagueness of the terms of his punishment mean in practice he's likely to become paranoid. Wouldn't you?
There was a film in a horror franchise which had a slightly different premise whereby Death personally went after people who had escaped the death that had been originally "planned" for them. The person who survived the longest did so by checking herself into a psychiatric clinic and living her days (years) inside a cushioned room. I believe this is becoming a factor in his mind.
As for your question… I think this is one of the stories where we savour the journey rather than wait for the ending. I like following his thought process and seeing how he changes with each experience. I doubt a great philosophical point will be unveiled in the end. Personally, I doubt he'll revive in the end in his original body. I think the series will end with his going on to stand before the scales and being dispatched to another plane of existence of reincarnation or whatever. I also think he'll spill the beans to his mother and leave his regrets behind on his last life. Not sure whether his ex-girlfriend will feature in the story, but perhaps he'll take over her fiancé's body.
Just my two cents. We'll see.
"Even conceding that you're right doesn't change the fact that since she hasn't told him how many times he has to avoid death to go on living in that body (i.e., how many different endings he has to probe before finding the one in which he survives), in practice he will experience anxiety over not knowing. We've already seen it in this chapter: he considered maybe thinking of looking for a girlfriend, but decided against it because he feels the mere thought of it means death is probably approaching. This implies he has an inkling that Death is a sadist who dangles the prize just out of his reach. Given that some of his deaths have been pretty pointless and out of the blue (the magician, the car crash, the gangster, the delinquent), I can't blame him for thinking like that.
That thought alone seems enough to make any hypothetical situation in which he manages to stay in a body an impaired life."
So I agree with you. Death may not be playing with him deliberately. But the vagueness of the terms of his punishment mean in practice he's likely to become paranoid. Wouldn't you?
There was a film in a horror franchise which had a slightly different premise whereby Death personally went after people who had escaped the death that had been originally "planned" for them. The person who survived the longest did so by checking herself into a psychiatric clinic and living her days (years) inside a cushioned room. I believe this is becoming a factor in his mind.
As for your question… I think this is one of the stories where we savour the journey rather than wait for the ending. I like following his thought process and seeing how he changes with each experience. I doubt a great philosophical point will be unveiled in the end. Personally, I doubt he'll revive in the end in his original body. I think the series will end with his going on to stand before the scales and being dispatched to another plane of existence of reincarnation or whatever. I also think he'll spill the beans to his mother and leave his regrets behind on his last life. Not sure whether his ex-girlfriend will feature in the story, but perhaps he'll take over her fiancé's body.
Just my two cents. We'll see.
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Why the knife get censored tho ?
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