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A cavalcade of circumstance might have brought you here. If you are you and not that circumstance interacting with you then that means that you chose to be swept up. How can both be true?

I have a theory if you'd be willing to humor me. Let's say one lobe in your brain is more literal where the other is more figurative... Each are constantly oscillating and each instant there might be a different lobe processing a word like 'you'. Let's say the word is more centered in your right eye; it's more to the right of you. The right eye is controlled by the left lobe of the brain for the most part, so it might process it left-dominant. If asked to jot down exactly what you processed you might have more luck writing down an exact description. Meanwhile you might see another word shaped exactly like 'you' with your left eye. In that instant that word might get processed right-dominant. In this case if asked to record exactly what you processed you might have more luck performing an artistic depiction.

With that in mind... what does a dying man in a group of survivors mean when he says "When I die you may eat me."? My theory is that the first half of that phrase is left-dominant where the second half is right-dominant. In this case 'I' would not mean 'me' in a literal sense. 'I' would indicate the logical source of the message, and 'me' would indicate a figurative god-idol association between corpse and self. One translation of this could be "When I no longer control this idol you may consume it.", or "This body you've nicknamed 'me' can be eaten when it's no longer alive."... In such a sense the word 'me' is a creative substitution; a metaphor for lack of a better term. Something meant to depict rather than describe, following a description of the nature of the overall message. Something left and right dominant in equal measure...

This fluid self within greater communication, expression as a whole, makes confronting The True Self a formidable task. The fundamental being; without which you would not be... It's as banal as a truism you've heard all throughout your life. If you get to a point where the words of that dying man are the last to leave your lips... where is your True Self? If you awake exactly as you construct yourself... do you let yourself be annihilated as a meal? Say you continue as yourself regardless; an essence indisputable... how are any of the others to know? The only name they might know to call upon is of a corpse that only says "Eat me." or "Bury me."... I think that there's better names to give people; better ways to draw the line. But sometimes the gesture of giving all you can is the most succinct way to have everyone know who you truly are.