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I think death is the doorway from this life into other lives; from this plane of existence into others. I believe in a cycle of rebirth, and an ultimate afterlife, wherein we are permitted to sometimes "rest" outside this universe in between our lives, sometimes to help select where we go next, sometimes for other reasons, and that after we have learned all we can-- we remember eveything from all our lives while we are "in-between,"-- and after we have taught to the limit we feel capable of, we are permitted to enter the World To Come. But without the death of the body, we would be trapped forever: it is death that ultimately sets us free, allows us to play the greater game of life.
That's what I think.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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