The physical body is solely a medium for creation and experience for its originator or I. In order that it can be used for this purpose, it has to be maintained by almost an ocean of physical and psychical organic structures that are also "created" phenomena and therefore perishable. This is the reason why the living being's physical body becomes old and worn-out and in the end becomes altogether useless. And the I is then released from this body. It is the I's release from its physical body that the human beings call "death" but which is actually not death at all. Human beings believe that this body released from the I, which we express as a "corpse", is the living being itself. If this corpse really were the living being itself, death would be a fact. But now the opposite is a fact for the finished human being. That which is alive must always continue to be living, and that which is dead must also in all eternity continue to be dead. Thus the "living" cannot die, and the "dead" can never become alive. This is one of the immovable pillars in the solution to the mystery of life.