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>Everyone in F/GO muses that humans should accept death for death giving life meaning and all that insipidness
It's insipid, but it's also true. It's why I quoted The Last Unicorn before, the book talks a lot about how immortal beings are not only like us, but don't really understand us. An immortal feels no regret, because regret is the emotion one has to express the feeling that one has misued their time on this earth in some way. But for a unicorn who will live until the stars themselves go out, there is no such thing as time being wasted. An immortal feels no love, because love is a fleeting, passionate emotion unsuited for eternity
It's not that they simply choose not to have these feelings, they straight up can't feel them because a mind that perceives things in the concept of eternity can't comprehend things that give a life meaning, because those are emotions for beings that have to leave a legacy when they inevitably die. My favorite passage is from the skull and even though he's speaking in riddles to hide the truth from the heroes, he's also speaking about how much his perspective has changed in the transition from a temporary life to an eternal death.
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“When I was alive, I believed — as you do — that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. I said 'one o'clock' as though I could see it, and 'Monday' as though I could find it on the map; and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year's Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door. Now I know that I could have walked through the walls. (...) You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. When you understand that — then any time at all will be the right time for you.”