# There Is No Real Birth And Death

> Tat: Do they not, then, my father, die - the lives in it, that
> are its parts?
>
> Hermes: Hush, son! - led into error by the term in use for what
> takes place. They do not die, my son, but are dissolved as compound
> bodies. Now dissolution is not death, but dissolution of a
> compound; it is dissolved not so that it may be destroyed, but
> that it may become renewed.
>
> Corpus Hermeticum, XII. About The Common Mind

All just "becoming". Composition and decomposition.