You know what healing feels like. You can see it happen before you. Even if you somehow touch upon that again, you'll know and can break the connection or reverse things before lasting harm is done. You may be reckless and inattentive with yourself, but you wouldn't do that to your patient.

If you could take life away from the living, you'd be sensing something from them and not those already connected to death, accurate?

[ Thanatos may have trouble trusting his own feelings, may not know what role he plays anymore, but he knows death. It's life he has trouble with.

Mort just opens and closes his little paws. One can almost imagine Mort smiling smugly at Lagos despite him not saying anything. ]