# To The Pain

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**Created:** [February 21, 2020, 7:49pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/to-the-pain/104 "2020-02-21T19:49:30Z")\
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Originally published at: [https://eldraeverse.com/2020/02/21/to-the-pain/](https://eldraeverse.com/2020/02/21/to-the-pain/)  
   
death-equivalent existence: It is a cliché, at least among Imperials, that “there are no fates worse than death”. A living sophont, after all, possesses the capacity for choice and action, and thus to better their situation – or, failing that, at least the capacity to be acted upon, in ways that open up further options. Death, however, terminates your worldline, thus foreclosing all futures. The term “death-equivalent existence” refers to alternate scenarios which also foreclose all futures. Almost all of these are hypothetical, as it is exceptionally difficult to construct a scenario that is as effective as foreclosing futures as…