Randy Blythe

But it's not Stockdale's prison.

It's not Stockdale's prison.

Yes.

No, it's not.

You know, I know guys who did a lot more time than me and they came out and survived it, you know, and I have a lot of friends.

I always bring up.

Like, you know, as I just did, like Afghanistan or something, I have friends and gone through some horrific stuff in the military.

You know, it wasn't a good time for me, but I know people who have been through worse.

And that gives me sort of grounding in the state of my current reality.

The concept Memento Mori, I'd heard it before I really started...

Tying it with stoicism, I heard.

Someone told me, it's like, oh, the monks, the ancient, the Christian monks would say this, you know, remember one day you too shall die.

As I get older and I'm kind of, I'm writing about this in the new book I'm working on some, I think more and more about my mortality because physically I feel it.

My body hurts more and more as a 50-year-old man who still acts like he's 17 on stage.

I feel it more and more and more.

And, you know, more and more people that are older than me that are either family or friends are dying.

So that is bringing my mortality down.

closer to my own face, you know?

I see people who try and deal with death, I think, by ignoring it.

Sure.