Dead and Loving It

Dead and Loving It

A newly deceased person's primer to
dealing with the unique challenges of undeath.

By Dame Rosario Antages, formerly of Northshire.

Prologue

Sitting in my study writing the opening to this book down, I'm struck by how much things have changed for me since I first pulled myself out of that coffin back in Deathknell. My entire outlook has shifted. It's like the sky has opened up and all my options are open now. Back then, it seemed like my world had come to an end. Now I know though that it was really the beginning.

The worst thing was that it didn't have to be that way. If someone had been able to take a moment with me in those first days, so much heart ache could have been avoided. Those who came before us didn't have any more perspective than we did coming out of the grave. I mean look at the name they chose for themselves, “The Forsaken.” We defined ourselves around our loss and pain. We mourned our lost lives and many of us still continue to do so. They look back instead of forward, only remembering.

If someone had been there to step in, to direct us in the right way of dealing with this undeath, then maybe we wouldn't have lost so much time shambling about trying to put something back together that was dead and gone. That's what this book is all about. It's about showing the way out of despair to those of you who are newly undead and coming out of the grave. I'm writing it so that you won't have to be forsaken. You can choose to be more. Yes our old lives are gone, yes we have lost what we had. We have something new though, and it's just as valuable... but only if we learn how to use it.

It's time to throw off that death shroud. Brush off that grave dust. We're not dead. We're not rotting refuse. We're the undead, and we're ready to begin our unlives anew. No time to start like the present.