[Poe frowns minutely, for a moment - he's just noted and recorded that people don't like this kind of talk, and then this young man goes and asks about it! It's a conflict of interest on the simplest level, since he doesn't want to upset anyone but also does want to helpfully answer questions...

Woe.]

No, I... mean that I would understand the differences, as it were.

[A beat.]

I am an AI, myself, but we do possess an intimate understanding of what it means to die.