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What does it mean?
Death is portrayed not as an end but as a reunion of spirits where mortality ceases.
In plain terms
When we die, our spirits meet and we stop dying.
What can you take from it?
Death can be seen as a beginning rather than an end.

Where it applies

  • comforting the grieving
  • contemplating mortality

Putting it to work

  • finding comfort in loss

Questions to consider

  • Do you believe spirits meet after death?
  • Is death truly the end?

Another view

It relies on unproven spiritual beliefs about what happens after death.

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