Death is such a negative term. It often conjures up emotions of depression and anger. It often causes great anxiety and worry. But what about the benefits of death? There are so many. Death is a beautiful process of the old fading back into the raw so that it may be renewed. Instead we view it as the worst thing that can happen in life. Death is not simply physical death. There are, in fact, many forms: the death of a relationship, the death of a period in your life and, most important, the death of an idea or concept. This is truly what all death is: the fading away of a concept that we had stored in our mind. The irony is that while we have the hardest time letting go of the idea (person, situation, condition) once we can allow for it to fade, there comes the most relieving sensation. This is where the true beauty of a breakdown can be found.