You have to have both the gift of a sensibility that is open to affirmations, and the willingness to work, to use it. They could be killed, but they did not die. It wasn't until it took two to reproduce that you began to get life spans. So death and sex, the creation of life, came into existence at the same time. We have to admit that we are afraid of death.
Death is change, and change is always frightening.
I was with my husband when he died, and death became a part of the whole experience. But often, we keep people alive long after they are gone. We have to learn to let them go. I don't know what happens at death. But I do know that God will not create and then annihilate or abandon.