I’m currently writing an anthology about death, its uncertainty, and ultimately, an existential horror about eternal suffering. I’m thinking of calling it Death is Not the End. I’ve written this introduction and would like constructive feedback, especially considering my application of the theory isn’t scientifically precise. I know the cat is BOTH alive and dead, but what I mean is that it’s equally likely that it is alive OR dead upon observation. I will be changing the wording to clarify, but I would love feedback if anybody sees anything else wrong with it. Just please be nice to me and my sensitive little soul 🙏
““According to the theory of Schrödinger’s cat, when an unobservable phenomenon with a chance of 50% in one of two possible outcomes occurs, the subject of the phenomenon is considered to be in superposition until observed. That being said, in the case of the cat, while in superposition, the cat is as equally likely dead as it is alive, and neither can be confirmed (fully realized) until the box is opened: either to find a healthy cat, or one with rigor mortis settling in nicely.
Now, the laws of death, while delicate and exact, are up to interpretation depending on the individual. Some expect there to be everything, while other individuals are quite content imagining their eternity of nothingness. Regardless of your belief in what happens when you die, we all agree in the certainty that death will eventually become of us. Seeing as such, death is truly the only certainty in the world.
“Death does not concern the living nor the dead. For the latter, it is not, and the former are no more.”
-Epicurus””
(I know the wording is also clunky, I’ll get to it)
““According to the theory of Schrödinger’s cat, when an unobservable phenomenon with a chance of 50% in one of two possible outcomes occurs, the subject of the phenomenon is considered to be in superposition until observed. That being said, in the case of the cat, while in superposition, the cat is as equally likely dead as it is alive, and neither can be confirmed (fully realized) until the box is opened: either to find a healthy cat, or one with rigor mortis settling in nicely.
Now, the laws of death, while delicate and exact, are up to interpretation depending on the individual. Some expect there to be everything, while other individuals are quite content imagining their eternity of nothingness. Regardless of your belief in what happens when you die, we all agree in the certainty that death will eventually become of us. Seeing as such, death is truly the only certainty in the world.
“Death does not concern the living nor the dead. For the latter, it is not, and the former are no more.”
-Epicurus””
(I know the wording is also clunky, I’ll get to it)