Death (n.) is conquerable by the will only through reproduction, which is why reproduction is the strongest instinct and which is why it is placed almost entirely beyond control of knowledge or reflection.
Death (n.) is, for the species, what sleep is for the individual.
Death (n.) is not experienced at the species level, for which the alteration between death and reproduction in the individual can be said to be nothing but the pulse-beat of the species.
Death (n.) animals hear about for the first time when they die.
Death (n.) is a sleep in which individuality is forgotten; everything else wakes again, or rather never slept.