I personally think death is irrelevant, according to my beleifs that energy that gives each thing in existance, animate and inanimate alike form, change, or life what some might call a soul is dispersed through out a thing's "life" or existance or traded with other things, when one dies that energy which it held upon death is dispersed around it to anything nearby, creating a never ending cycle of change wher nothing is born nor dies, things merely change from one form to the next. Humans give things definition by catagorizing life, death, animate and inanimate. we are merely all part of one whole that makes up the earth and universe around us.