{"id":8995,"date":"2024-04-28T21:40:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T02:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/?p=8995"},"modified":"2025-02-08T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T03:51:01","slug":"how-does-someone-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/2024\/04\/28\/how-does-someone-die\/","title":{"rendered":"How does someone die?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I promised myself to never make a promise I can&#8217;t keep. Nobody controls when the bell tolls for thee. &#8220;Not for a long time&#8221; is probably true and the right thing to say \u2014 spare the kid a smidge of terror, preschool thanatophobia.<br><br>But as with most things in his sphere, he&#8217;s more curious than afraid. Blank slate. Asking big questions but lacking context, lost on the follow-up, content with the small facts.<br><br>Hearts stop beating. Brains stop working. Old people&#8217;s bodies wear out and die. If someone loses all their blood in a super bad accident, they could die. If someone gets super sick, so bad they&#8217;re in the hospital, they could die.<br><br>&#8220;Let&#8217;s talk about something else,&#8221; he says.<br><br>&#8220;Okay.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/13fyWapG1zI5gnhC4HapsdKB49bb60rZ9\/preview\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" allow=\"autoplay\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promised myself to never make a promise I can&#8217;t keep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-8995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-narratives","tag-deepsicks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8997,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8995\/revisions\/8997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/megasimon.com\/d6\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}