“The goal is not to live forever. The goal is to create something that will.” (Chuck Palahniuk)

death and life sign post

The most we can come to through death is nothingness. But does nothingness really exist? Can it exist? The meaning of nothing is opposite to something and something can ultimately be defined only through its relationship to nothing. Yet, we see death as something turning to nothing. Life, movement, words, emotions turning into empty space and silence. But this is just an illusion.

Every scientist will tell you energy can never be destroyed, only transformed, thus death is merely an anecdote for transformation. As death remains undefinable, it can be seen as an end of all, or a conversion, a renewal, a shift towards something new. If seen as a transformation it leads to infinite possibilities, but if seen as an end, then death comes and remains. But this simply cannot be! If nothing remains alive, then equally nothing can remain dead. We have potentially been dead for billions of years before we were born, yet one day we came to life. This suggests life is a continuation of death, just as death is a continuation of life. We know how and why our lives will end, but we have yet to understand how and why death ends and life begins!?

Life is an expression of the Absolute. It’s beingness experiencing itself in a world of form, a never-ending process of becoming and passing, where every life provides conditions for new life. Leaves grow, mature and fall to ground, thus provide food for new life to develop. Beings are born, expand and contract into dust. With every passing something new is given an opportunity to live, to seek and find a new experience, thus Nature continues to flow, learn, grow and prosper, forever. It’s the never-ending process of evolution. Life is everywhere and only increasing in size and presence. So all the fuss is clearly not about life and death, it’s about birth and death; life is eternal!