Well thank you for being such a friendly and cheery person and berating me for things I didn’t do - nowhere was I berating the author. Please stop to think whether that makes my day any better.
Just to be clear: I was not berating the author, I was pointing out that the author had a choice here where she won’t be able to make everybody happy at the same time, and I was wondering which way she chose.
The mourners’ beliefs about the afterlife have a significant impact on how they deal with the death of a loved one.
True; I was using the term in a more scientific sense. There are pretty blatant examples of absence of evidence being rather strong evidence which usually don’t end up being referred to as “evidence” in common usage. Imagine:
Prosecution: The defendant murdered the victim by stabbing him into the heart.
Defense: The body shows no evidence of a stab wound.
In reality, that case would just never go to court.
Humans are well known to be mostly unable to intuitively understand probabilities. And four-year-olds tend to be slightly worse at understanding things than the average of the human population.
But that’s another interesting challenge for the book. And of course there are two parts to the answer - “Don’t worry, it won’t happen [any time soon, at least probably not]”, and “Don’t be afraid of death when it comes, because [well… good luck with that one]”.
Weird is good. Stay weird.
