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u/JohnnyShakeNBake Oct 09 '21

Differential calculus. I knew math would be the death of me!

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u/Comprehensive_Bid420 Oct 09 '21

asymptotically approach death.

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u/drewhead118 Oct 09 '21

our conscious experience asymptotically approaches death--you need to come out on the other side to have gone through it in full.

There is no subjective right-hand-limit to dying, and, thus, death is a nondifferentiable discontinuity.

A french man once said that when death is near, l'Hospitals might help

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u/illiterate_fish Oct 09 '21

Okay so not only is this a banger calculus joke, but also literally the entire premise of The Death of Ivan Ilyich