Think of Death and the Judgment then?
No! no time to think about Death then.

Life was what Captain Ahab and I was thinking of; and how to save all hands--how to rig jury-masts--how to get into the nearest port; that was what I was thinking of." Bildad said no more, but buttoning up his coat, stalked on deck, where we followed him.

There he stood, very quietly overlooking some sailmakers who were mending a top-sail in the waist.

Now and then he stooped to pick up a patch, or save an end of tarred twine, which otherwise might have been wasted..