It's kind of hard to explain, but the short version is that the afterlife I ended up in isn't exactly the norm. You're only there until you find satisfaction, then you're reincarnated. Naturally, if you could stay hurt or get sick, you'd fall into one of the traps of life where you might end up absolutely miserable again. So, if you get hurt, no matter how badly you'll heal completely. You can't get sick. There aren't any hospitals, just a nurse's office with a couple of beds and no nurse because technically we shouldn't need them. Most of us were in better shape there than we ever were alive. Trust me, even though I'm here because they took me out of the afterlife, there'd still be a corpse somewhere in the ground in the world I was alive in. Or ashes. I'm not really sure, I wasn't there for it. [ A brief pause ] I hope it was one of those, anyway.

[ She nods. ]

The last draft they took a little girl who lives with me and a lot of the people I talk to normally. There aren't a whole lot of elderly people here though, so I can't say for sure about that. I doubt they'd care anyway. I can't say for sure, but I think if you get old and die from old age, you just come back younger again.