To truly live, death must die. Only then does life truly become life. Death is a portal through which we all must pass, and if considered in its proper place in our life, it will empower us rather than cripple us. No Sting is the revelation of perspective. A perspective that doesn't eliminate the temporal perspective in favor of the eternal but rather seeks to find the space of integration of the two. It seems to be the only wise perspective. Death will be to each of us however we choose to define it. It will affect us within the paradigm we choose to place it within. Therefore, the one who conquered death would be the wisest teacher from which to gain wisdom.