What if one of us dies? What happens then?'<br />I reached around and turned on the light to see the clock: 3:20 A.M. 'I suppose we'd remarry.'<br />'Just like that!' Jane exploded. She sat up in bed, facing away from me. 'You can't just pick a wife off a shelf.'<br />'Of course not. I just meant that if I happened to die young I'd want you to be happy.'<br />'How could I be happy without you? When you get married, you make the biggest decision of your life; you say you're going to spend eternity with one person. So what do you do if that person leaves? What do you do once you've already committed yourself?'<br />'What do you want me to do?' I asked.<br />And Jane looked at me and said, 'I want you to live forever.

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult