Death is unavoidable, and in many situations, death is viewed as some sort of karmic justice, the eternal essence of completion. Sentient beings are far more comfortable with the idea of death than the idea of perpetual existence. One usually doesn’t want to live forever; he or she desires to return to the Elysian fields, a cosmos of heavenly non-existence, where one is presumably united with the bosom of Abraham and falls at the knees of Jesus Christ, but in a very unromantic context.