Talk:Misaki Fujioka/@comment-72.35.107.82-20141025053551/@comment-397235-20141026130837

Chibiki's interpretation of death is the only one we get from an adult, but the converse is Mei's ("Death is not kind..."). That implies some degree of sentience.

I've always seen Chibiki's comment as a cop-out, a sign of his cowardice. Chibiki refuses to help or protect his former class at first, and even when he does join them, he takes the first opportunity offered to flee. So by saying Death is just a force of nature, Chibiki absolves himself of any responsibility for the deaths which have occurred because, well, there's nothing anyone could've done.

Kouichi is a fan of Lovecrtaft, which focuses on things so powerful and incomprehensible it's best to simply stay away from them and hope they do the same. Death is an Eldritch abomination.