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The thought experiment says death becomes beautiful only in a world already freed from fear and harm.

The poem depends on a strict condition: if everything on Earth were actually good, then death could be accepted instead of dreaded. That makes death itself less the problem than the anxiety and damage of living. The calm tone gives the idea a severe clarity, almost like a philosophical note stripped down to essentials.

An untitled five-line typed poem proposing that 'If everything was good on Earth / (in terms of the actual things that go on) / Then death would be beautiful / Not frightening but expected / After so long a period without worry'.

The poem is a compact conditional argument: the fear of death comes from the harm of life, not from death itself. The parenthesis insists on the actual, practical world rather than an ideal one, which quietly admits that the condition is not met. The plain, even tone makes the wish for a death that is simply 'expected' sound both calm and sad.