The purpose of death is to renew life that has become over-embroiled and mangled up with physical efforts. Rick is perhaps feeling more expansive and light -- in the deepest sense -- than he has for fifty odd years, for example. I surely hope so.

Strange as the passage seems to those outside it, I have always felt it was a time to put down a heavy load, get free, review one's journey, and to re-generate all that one chooses to be from scratch.

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