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It's the age-old question. Ordinarily, it's true that you can only get dead once, when dealing with immortals and supernatural monsters, I could certainly buy something getting you deader than something else.

I mean I think passing away from old age probably gets you less dead than say, getting hit by an 18-wheeler. Filled up with baseball bats, and being driven by a zombie. While on fire.

You see what I mean?

That's just biological death- of course immortals don't have to deal with that.
As for other things like dieing on the inside, fatal girlfriend incidents, and ingestion of exploding badgers- well, immortality doesn't protect you from those.
Other things might but not immortality.

No- the exploding badgers halt the process long before it could ever reach such a stage.

Exploding badgers explose every day. This raises uestions like "how are there still any around?" or "why the hell would they do that?" but those questions are really just distractions from more mportant things like not eating exploding badgers unless you are immortal and like the feeling of badgers exploding against your internal organs- though I'm willing to bet that none of the immortals around here are particularly fond of the feeling with Astral probably just being relatively indifferent to it.

Maybe they bury their dead.

Actually the explosion is of a rather 'complete chemical reaction' that just results in some water, some tar, and some ashes. Their remains are all over the place.

And we do find remains of failed evolutionary steps- we've got a whole bunch of dodo fossils.
As for the bigger failures they tend to fail so hard that they never get a chance to be burried alive so other animals pick apart their carcasses, scatter the bones, and then surface activity reduces them to tiny fragments that probably won't fossilize anyway.

Even the really genius anthropologists need at least one full bone to say much about the type of animal it came from. To find a full skeleton relatively in tact is much rarer for the above explanation of what happens when something isn't burried alive or isolated from the still living habitants of the area in some way and burried later.

I'm just gonna say, I've very proud of my time on the QotW. It's been a pleasurable experience.

Glad you've enjoyed it. Nice hat, by the way.