Now when I first started asking what happens when we die, the grown-ups around me at the time answered with a typical English mix of awkwardness and half-hearted Christianity, and the phrase I heard most often was that granddad was now "up there looking down on us," and if I should die too, which wouldn't happen of course, then I too would go up there, which made death sound a lot like an existential elevator.
Kada sam prvi puta počeo postavljati pitanja što se događa kada umremo, odrasli oko mene tada su odgovorili tipičnom engleskom mješavinom nespretnosti i malodušnog kršćanstva. Najčešća fraza koju sam čuo bila je da je djed sada "gore i gleda dolje na nas," i ako bih i ja slučajno umro, što se zasigurno neće dogoditi, tada bih i ja otišao gore, što je mi smrt predočilo kao kakvo egzistencijalno dizalo.