When asked if he was afraid of dying, the American economist Tyler Cowen demurred. But what he said next unsettled me for days. “The worst thing about death is not knowing how the human story turns out.”
It is only natural to yearn to know what happens in the future. Even in the streaming era, television shows use cliffhangers to persuade us to click “next episode”. If it was good enough for Charles Dickens, it’s surely fine for the producers of the Real Housewives of Atlanta. But what if we don’t like what’s coming next?
