So it goes.
That line is repeated 106 times in Kurt Vonnegut’s anti-war masterpiece Slaughterhouse Five. It’s used as a thematic device to signal death. Whenever someone, or something dies, it’s followed by that phrase; it’s the death rattle for us all.
That phrase is absurd; it doesn’t show compassion and completely distasteful when it comes to death. You can ponder “Every life is precious, why would he ever trivialize something like that?” If you weren’t required to read the book in school, do it and you’ll find out.
Certain life events make you look back over your existence and you question everything you’ve done or should’ve done. In this existential moment, you’re faced with hard questions and even harder answers. Have I done enough? Am I happy enough? Have I made an impact in someone’s life? And you do one of three things: You don’t change, you decide to change, or you freak out.
If you haven’t experienced this feeling yet, don’t worry, you will. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but one day it will hit you hard between idle thoughts and you’ll wonder why you didn’t have this feeling before. Soon, it’ll engulf your entire subconscious and that’s all you can think about. It’s this concept that many forms stories in entertainment are based off of since it’s such a universal concept. I bet there’s even been a Roseanne script or two if you dig hard enough.

Editor’s Note: Just the ad this time. So we don’t break up the pace of this commercial, it’s going to be the dialogue only. If you don’t get this, there is the corresponding commercial after the ad. This card was spoiled by WotC employee 