Liz is supposed to now live her life and find an avocation.Īn avocation is like a job on Earth, except you have to really enjoy doing it and can only do it if it makes you happy. Young enough to be in a relationship with Liz’s friend. Due to how time is measured in Elsewhere, Betty now looks quite young. Many of them can’t conceive of themselves as dead.”Īs the story goes on, Liz meets her grandma, Betty, who passed away before Liz was born. Young people tend to think they’re immortal. “It can be particularly difficult for young people to realise they have passed. She thinks this is all a dream and expects to be woken up anytime. It turns out that people go to Elsewhere when they die, they live there (if you can call it that), age backwards and then return to Earth as babies to be (quite literally) reborn.Īs we follow Liz around on the ship, she is having a very hard time understanding she is dead. Instead of going wherever it is that people go when they’re dead, she wakes up on a big boat that’s heading to a place called Elsewhere. Liz is almost 16 and she dies in a hit-and-run accident. “I’m just a girl who forgot to look both ways before she crossed the street.”
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