“Ah,” he said, taking a puff from his pipe, “I believe therein lies the problem. You see, it’s a very common misconception that Life is surrounded in, encompassed by, Death. It does feel that way often, doesn’t it? That since you do not exist here when you are not alive, that Death must be everything else. But I’ve never experienced Death as anything but a point--a mere dot in time. It is only when the change happens. One moment you are alive, and then you are not. And so your one life has ended. But all Life around you still moves and breathes... Life still lives beyond your death. And how again can Death be forever, when forever stops when we and the seas and the planets and stars become still?”