Yes, I am saying that existence is better than non-existence; that somethingness is better than nothingness. I am implying as much when I say that the chaos of primordial matter, from which our bodies come and to which our bodies return, “should not cause us to mourn,” because it indicates that at least there is something, rather than nothing. I know it is a premise that some disagree with. I can sort of understand the appeal of the viewpoint that runs counter to mine, if appeal is the right word. But only insofar as one might imagine non-existence as a sort of gigantic cosmic sleep, though of course I would then be making an analogy where none can be made. Non-existence is not like sleep, because sleep is an event, an experience. Sleep already belongs to the conditions of existence. There is nothing to non-existence, not even nothing. For, again, nothing is a concept, and concepts are something.