Death is what drives us
Knowing we will die doesn't drain life of meaning; it is the very thing that pushes us to achieve, learn, love and create. Without a limit, there would be no urgency to make anything.
Every birth creates a death
To bring a life into the world is also to bring a death into it, since everyone born will one day die. That makes those who give birth natural companions of death, not strangers to it.
The body rebels against false work
The longer you keep doing work you don't believe in, the more your body pushes back. Physical strain becomes a signal that your life and your convictions have come apart.
Ashes erase every life's ledger
Once a body is burned, nothing in the remains shows whether the person had successes, failures, grandchildren or crimes. Death levels every record we spend our lives building up.