Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
Sometimes the very best way to deal with unpleasant things is to depict them in ways that allow people to laugh at them and destroy the power of unsayable things, rather than refusing to acknowledge them.
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.
More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!
What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.