This year's Halloween inspires random thoughts tied together by considerations of mortality.

 

The previously mentioned episode that references Highlander and immortality is Ep. 43 Lost Boys and Golden Girls, recorded in 2019. 

(You can imagine, I'm sure, how often I'm double-checking that I've spelled "immortality" correctly here.)

Yes, nine months is the usually accepted length of a human pregnancy, but if you count from the actual date of conception it's really eight and a half months, which is the duration from St. Valentine's Day to Halloween. Don't know if it means anything...

The particular place I heard of Hamlet's calendar setting is Steve Roth's "Hamlet: The Undiscovered Country," which is fine place to understand the Dane better. The associated website is http://princehamlet.com