It was just something I said without any thought, until one day I was like, “wait a fucking minute, what the hell’s up with this whole ‘if I die before I wake’ stuff?
Yes it’s very creepy. It implies that there’s some reasonable chance that you’ll just die in your sleep. I have to imagine that this happens to healthy children at some exceedingly low rate that to comment on it, is itself very weird. I mean we don’t walk out of our door in Virginia and say a quick prayer about how if a random giraffe happens to escape from a zoo and trample me, that I give my soul up to God, because that would be extremely unlikely and weird. It’s a guess, but I have to think the odds of an otherwise healthy child dying in their sleep, has to be equally as unlikely, or at least within a few orders of magnitude.