[Ricardo doesn't understand immortality, but he understands repetitive, meaningless, numbing losses. Some were his own, and most were others'. The loss of a parent, spouse, child, grandchild, comrade, friend -- the list was endless and the emotions that came with it numbing, the only saving grace being that these were only memories and the associated feelings fainter than they could have been had he experienced them directly. He did see those losses through Sham's eyes in the last year as well but those were easier as the entity he shared a mind with was less incapable of suffering grief and mourning than Ricardo himself was. (He isn't sure if it would have been any different; his reaction to his own parents' death was just as pathetic as Sham's initial understanding of loss.)]
audio;
... You understand immortality?
[It's more out of curiosity than anything else.]