Throughout the realm and scope of Bradbury’s writings, the idea of death often appears. “The Time of Going Away” treats this idea in a somewhat light manner. Bradbury believes that everyone entertains thoughts of death sometime in his life. At the same time, he is convinced that we have more important things to do than think and worry about death all the time. For this reason, he thinks that it is beneficial to write about death. If we can vicariously experience death in a way similar to William’s, we have time to attend to the business of living.