[An expression both fleeting and sad crosses Illarion's face at something Nehan says, there and gone again in an instant before it's replaced by ebullient good humor.]

It would not be much of an experience, I am fearing, when I am dead. Nothing stirs me. [Depressingly, and it is a very good reason he should make good on a few opportunities while he's got the chance--but!] The dissection is the better choice. You will have that.

Now. Do the other terms remain as stands?