I'd definitely advise against combusting. It sounds painful and also messy for the rest of us. I'd suggest just laying down and dying out of sheer trauma. It's clean and, from a certain perspective, relaxing.

[Oh good, he's smiling so she'll keep up the nonsensical joking tone. At least he's not horribly traumatized forever. ...Yet. It might be good to keep it that way.]

Exactly that. I was stuck frozen in a tube and apparently missed the literal end of the world before we ended up here. Which is apparently a place close to where we used to be but 300 years in the future. Or something like that. The details start to get exhausting around here.