Zhuangzi, a Daoist philosopher who lived in China many centuries ago, himself experienced loss when his wife died. Zhuangzi reacted by banging a drum and singing. People around him thought he had gone mad. But he told them that life was a circle of birth and death, and that death was the beginning of a birth. If you did not die, he told them, how could you be reborn? This was why he was celebrating: his wife was going to have a new life.
— Yifa , Safeguarding the Heart