These forms will also disintegrate. Finally, everything will have disintegrated into its component parts This will be part of new forms. Plants feed on the dust of stones. Worms feed on the dust of men. This is wrong.
Time passes because entropy increases.
We prefer to see time as we do, because we are living beings, living on entropy. We may see time in other ways, in other directions. But this is not useful, for we are beings of entropy. We choose the direction of time we perceive as the direction Entropy increases the most. Death is the great change which all living beings must pass.