This is said after every death, no matter who it is or what happened. "When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad shape at that particular moment, but that the same person is fine at many other times. Now, when I myself feel that someone is dead, I raise I simply turn my back and say what the Tralfamadorians say about the dead, which is 'So it goes'" (Vonnegut 27). Pilgrim's father also died due to a hunting accident, but Pilgrim states "so it goes" afterward. Pilgrim nullifies the effects and pain of death by making it seem like a normal event and no longer feeling any remorse for it. This helps him cope due to the fact that there were so many deaths that occurred in the bombing of Dresden and making it seem, to him, not bad at all. If death still affected Pilgrim, he would feel tremendous pain due to his war experience. He was captured behind enemy lines, became a prisoner of war, saw his friend executed for stealing a teapot, survived the severe bombing of Dresden, and after all this trauma, is expected to return to his normal life as an American medium. work 9-5 and support a family of 4. No, I don't think that's entirely possible, which is why Pilgrim goes to such extreme measures to deal with his