# There Is No Real Birth And Death

> Tat: Do they not, then, my father, die - the lives in it, that a
> re 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 compo
> und bodies. Now dissolution is not death, but dissolution of a c
> ompound; it is dissolved not so that it may be destroyed, but th
> at it may become renewed.
>
> Corpus Hermeticum, XII. About The Common Mind

All just "becoming". Composition and decomposition.