Short Story: What is the purpose of death? What is the importance of life?

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John's mother had recently died, and he was visiting her memorial stone, in the cemetery. He looked down at the dark writing on the tombstone, which gave the details of his mother's death, and birthdates, and he thought to himself, "Her life has come and gone between those dates, and I, a product of her, still exist for now." What is the purpose behind any life, and is it serving anything still from the grave? John looked up at a nearby large tree, and he saw some birds, sitting on the branches there. "Each life supports other lives, and my mother's past life, is still supporting me in its way, as I have branched off of her in some ways too," he speculatively thought to himself. Life is born to every new moment of death, and death comes to life, in every new moment of life. There is a time to be born, and a time to die, and each is determined by the other. Time lives in life, and death lives in time. Both time and death are brothers, but life is the mother of both. We need to die to death to live to life. When we are born, that is then most important. When our time is to die, that is then most important. The importance of the rest of our lives rests between these two most important events in our life, and it is up to ourselves, which other importances, we create in our own lives. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com "The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living." Arlo Guthrie, an American musician, said this.