Dan listened intently to Igneus' words, nodding when he had finished. "Precisely. I think it helps to imagine life as a painting though. Each brush stroke adds on and to the finished product, but until you see the full painting it is impossible to tell what it is supposed to become. The only exception is those who ask the painter themselves what the picture is meant to represent. In our world that is what death has become. Those who have lived out their lives, watching as their brush stroke comes to end. Those who seek enlightenment and move on in order to see what will come to those they left behind. Whether they laugh of they weep at what they see, the painting is still beautiful either way."