And then, then, then after a time Adam dies. And there is the first sign of trouble. Something not created by God. Not blessed by Him. Not something in the heavenly image.
Death is foreign.
It is creation gone wrong. The darkness of sin's curse has settled clearly on the earth. In one awful way it ended for Adam on that very first day, the day that he and his wife rebelled and figured they knew better than God. Life ended because right then and there humanity was separated from the God in whose likeness they were made. They were chased out of paradise.