The chapter opens with a description of the afterlife. The narrator tells us that the afterlife is a place where the dead are absolved of their sins and guided to the afterlife by the spirit of the dead body. The dead body is a plump, plump woman, who makes the dead feel at ease. She is the avatar of a god who absolves the sins of the living and guides the dead to the next life. The chapter ends with the narrator's prediction that the dead woman will be reincarnated in the sweden as if nothing ever happened.