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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.

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