Death may be the beginning of exaltation, an ultimate celebration, a reunion of the divine image with the divine source of being.
Dust returns to dust, while the image, the divine stake in man, is restored to the bundle of life.
Death is not sensed as a defeat but as a summation, an arrival, a conclusion.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel, Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity by Abraham Joshua Heschel, Susannah Heschel, editor