> Sure, but even someone retiring after winning the lottery might deign to write a few things down for you.
Might, or they might not. Just as if someone were hit by a bus, they might be able to communicate from their hospital bed...or they might not. Hope is not a strategy.
Well yeah, that's why the whole scenario in the first place is that they're hit by a bus and instantly killed.
Maybe it should be rephrased as "blown to a million pieces" then there's no question you're discussing a situation in when there's an immediate and irreversible loss of knowledge.