His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!
I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.