"Death is traumatic, regardless of its circumstance." One does not need to have died to figure that out, though the answer sounds unexpectedly strange to Palamedes' ears, now that he has experienced it himself. The effort to avoid examining too closely the vivid memories of his own death remains both exhausting and necessary. "And I suspect that eternity, even the prospect of it, can make a person lose touch with reality. But if one could ensure the right kind of structures for the right mind, then the results might be different." He shrugs ruefully. "Difficult to test, for obvious reasons."