The Economist article suggests that the popularity of the multiverse might be responding to some deeper yearning. We used to be dead before we came to life, so why can't that happen again? What is the functional difference between pre-life death and post-life death that makes them mutually exclusive? And you just think of these things as completely hypothetical rather than caring about whether they're actually out there in physical reality would be my personal advice.

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