Well, not dead, but “sleep[ing] until the end of the world” rather suggests that he’s not going to do any more interacting with anyone else, which is (under a principle I’ve attempted to develop to deal with future personhood/identity/instantiating-people problems) equivalent to him being dead (unless he can make something out of the end of the world).
[I’ve thought about writing up said principle, but I’m not good at the sort of discussion it would likely prompt, and it’s probably too simplistic. Anyone want to see it anyway?]
I thought “end of the world” meant “end of the world as it was”… ie, “by the time he wakes back up, the spell will have completed and our friendly neighborhood dark lord will have already started fixing the place up”
Wasn’t assuming he was dead—but sure, if he was, then of course.
Well, not dead, but “sleep[ing] until the end of the world” rather suggests that he’s not going to do any more interacting with anyone else, which is (under a principle I’ve attempted to develop to deal with future personhood/identity/instantiating-people problems) equivalent to him being dead (unless he can make something out of the end of the world).
[I’ve thought about writing up said principle, but I’m not good at the sort of discussion it would likely prompt, and it’s probably too simplistic. Anyone want to see it anyway?]
I thought “end of the world” meant “end of the world as it was”… ie, “by the time he wakes back up, the spell will have completed and our friendly neighborhood dark lord will have already started fixing the place up”
Yup, that was the intended interpretation.