&gt; “To be or not to be,” said Hamlet, prince of Denmark, “that is the question.” Yesterday, Hamlet’s creator was; today, he is not. Of that there is no question.<p>OK, so I&#x27;m moved to quote Samuel Butler:<p>&gt; To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.<p>I got that (as I recall) from Peter Watts&#x27; <i>Echopraxia</i>.<p>It&#x27;s rather comforting, because I can always imagine that I will awaken ;)