Not really. I mean...knowing you will die doesn't prepare you for it.

[ there is the weight of a certain heavy knowledge in his voice. dave has died, has known he would die, and the knowing did not make any of it easier. he'd known it was coming so many of the times it had, and yet that had not made dying any easier or less terrible. ]

...At least if you don't know it's coming, it's just a thing that happens. Not also a thing you dreaded until it came.