Death, the destination of our journey through life, also heals. Teshuva is the little death that connects us to the big one. Or as the Rambam says: The repentant should change his name, as if to say, I am another. I am not the same person who did these deeds. It is as if that person has died. This is why this day resembles a dress rehearsal for our death.
— Alan Lew, This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared