How to Avoid Death on a Daily Basis
I had managed to avoid letting the realisation that we were dead get to him, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t figure it out.
It was a difficult thing to grasp, that ephemeral concepts like realisation, understanding and awareness could be manipulated through physical connections that I could see and touch. Emotions I could sort of get my head around — they were just chemicals in the brain, after all. You block them or turn them off, the feelings go away.
I’ve seen that in action, first-hand. No matter how strongly you think you feel about something, the right cocktail of antipsychotics will convince you to no longer give a shit.