to fear death, dear friends, is only to think ourselves wise without being wise, for it is to think we know what we do not know. death may be the unreachable horizon, a predissolutionary pass by from existence as we know it, yet it sparks the most profound conversation about our essence and the cosmos that invites us to return to the beginning, to the core of our being, where fear has no stronghold and the soul's journey transcends the confines of earthly understanding.