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Death and What Comes Next
Terry Pratchett · 2004short story
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A dying physicist tries to talk his way out of dying, arguing Death down with quantum-mechanical logic about parallel universes where he doesn't die at all. Death, unimpressed, turns the man's own argument back on him, with a punchline about which universe he is actually standing in.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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- contained in A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fictioncollection
- contained in Once More with Footnotescollection