While having a conversation the other day about life and death it occurred to me that there was a serious misconception about subject. Most people think that the two are opposites; after you live your life you die, hence the term life and death. But, these two are not opposites. Life encompasses all that happens and death is a part of our journey. Birth is the opposite of death. We are born. We live our life. We die. The importance comes in to play when we worry about what will happen to us. Some believe (including myself) that we move on to a new journey in some new form, whatever that may be. Others feel that your existence is over and your body is churned back with the rest of the planetary particles. Either way it is a process, not an end. So, next time you are fearing the opposite of life, perhaps it might help to ask the question, is the end to my life coming or am I simply moving on to a different stage?