Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.
Edmund Sears
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As Gandalf said to Pippin during the Siege of Minas Tirith:
“End? No, the journey doesn’t end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain‑curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it. White shores, and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.”
–JRR Tolkien
He painted a beautiful image. Good art.