For some, a few minutes of life means a few more minutes of learning. For all, a few more minutes of learning means life. Every once in a while we get to see it clearly. If one is to live one has to learn Torah. Otherwise one may breath, but it's not life.
Some dead people walk around for years before they are buried.
Lets be real for a moment. There are 600,000 letters in the Torah. This is also the number of all the souls of all the generations of the Jews, from thefirst to the last, from the great leaders of the generation of the desert to the last generation of the footsteps of the Mashiach. Each soul is rooted in one of the letters of the Torah. Moshe Rabbeinu, on the day he was gathered wrote 13 Sifrai Torah.