On the other hand...
I have heard the cosmologists talk about the nature of alternative universes and realities. I have read that in a _very_ large but finite amount of space, all possible combinations of matter would recur -- for example, everything on earth and everthing out 100 light years or more. So if that is the case, another "you" may exist somewhere, certainly has existed before this time and certainly will exist again, all on different versions of Earth separated by unimaginable distances. I take a certain amount of comfort in the thought because -- while I personally will almost certainly die -- there will always be a Rodney. Somewhere.
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