Birth and death frame the experience of midlife.

Evidence

If the past is a province the aged revisit and the future is one that the child dreams, birth and death are the oceans that bound them. And midlife is the moment between them, that frontier when its seems as if we could go either way, when our view is as good on either side. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 427

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 427
• XREF: connects to: Understanding death is essential to understanding life. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 128; Boomers experienced death as unpredictable and detached. — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 49; Birth and death are immanent extensions of life itself. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 826 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Understanding death is essential to understanding life. #expands (0.70) — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 128
• Boomers experienced death as unpredictable and detached. #expands (0.60) — Lynch, Thomas, The undertaking-life studies from the…, 49