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{{Short description|Short story by Terry Pratchett}}
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| genre                = [[Fantasy]]
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"'''Death and What Comes Next'''" is a [[fantasy fiction|fantasy]] short story by British writer [[Terry Pratchett]], part of his ''[[Discworld]]'' series. It tells the story of a discussion between [[Death (Discworld)|Death]] and a [[philosopher]], in which the philosopher attempts to use the [[many-worlds interpretation]] of [[quantum mechanics]] to argue that death is not a certainty.

The story was written in 2002 for the now-defunct online puzzle game ''TimeHunt'' and the text contains a hidden word puzzle, also devised by Pratchett, which provided a codeword for the game.

Like "[[Theatre of Cruelty (Discworld)|Theatre of Cruelty]]", another of his short stories, Pratchett allowed it to be put on the L-Space Web.

==See also== 
*[[Parallel universe (fiction)]]

==External links==
* {{isfdb title|901960}}
*[http://www.lspace.org/books/dawcn/ The "Death and What Comes Next" L-Space page] including various translations

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[[Category:Discworld short stories]]
[[Category:Fantasy short stories]]
[[Category:Fiction about personifications of death]]