Birth and death are immanent extensions of life itself.

Evidence

If, furthermore, as I am convinced, death is immanent in life from the outset, this, too, involves a stepping out of life beyond itself. From its center, life stretches out toward the absolute of life, as it were, and becomes in this direction more-life; but it stretches out toward nothingness as well. … The deep relationship between birth and death, which man has always perceived, as if some formal relation existed between them as life catastrophes, finds here its metaphysical pivot. Both events are attached to the subjective life and transcend it, toward above and toward below, so to speak. The life beyond which they extend is nevertheless not conceivable without them. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 826

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Death-as-immanent-self-transcendence is a dense metaphysical claim that repays extended reflection.
• XREF: connects to: Birth and death frame the experience of midlife. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 427; In African Vitalogy life and death are different modes of living; Life both requires and overflows every determinate form — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 828 (+7 more)

Related

• The dead body becomes just another object among the world’s forms (similarity 0.84)
• Birth and death frame the experience of midlife. (similarity 0.83)
• Life both requires and overflows every determinate form (similarity 0.82)
• In African Vitalogy life and death are different modes of living (similarity 0.82)
• Being-towards-death frames mortality as the source of authentic existence (similarity 0.81)
• Authentic existence requires accepting that we will die (similarity 0.79)
• Representation and textuality can literally determine life and death, not merely shape discourse (similarity 0.79)
• The concept of life frames the fundamental decisions of modern existence (similarity 0.79)
• In Vitalogy, being reduces first to living, and being itself reduces first to reason. (similarity 0.79)
• Death belongs to facticity, not to freedom, and transforms us into the outside. (similarity 0.78)
• Death cannot be an authentic human possibility because it negates all projects (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Birth and death frame the experience of midlife. #expands (0.60) — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 427
• In African Vitalogy life and death are different modes of living #complicates (0.55)
• Existence and limitation are inseparably linked in life narratives. #corroborates (0.55) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 980
• Mourning marks a second birth and grants eternal life to the departed #expands (0.55)
• Life both requires and overflows every determinate form #complicates (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 828
• The dead body becomes just another object among the world’s forms #contradicts (0.50) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 2557
• Life is simultaneously boundless continuity and boundary-determined ego #qualifies (0.50) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 811
• The living-dead relationship parallels cells within a whole organism #expands (0.50)