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If that is what that phrase means, then I do not love life. I love living. I know nothing of death, and cannot help but dread its inevitable embrace.

All that I am now, all the things I do and could do, will change. It may be a part of life, but it is the end of living.

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If you want children, then you must die so they can have children and those children can have children and... For if we lived forever then we could not have children, as otherwise the world's population would grow incredibly fast and quickly overwhelm the planet's carrying capacity.

the idea is that life and dead are both a side of the same figurative coin

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