Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31381501-20171204042537/@comment-24729606-20171207225112

well personally I've long considered death as either an aspect of oblivion or of death and oblivion as being essentially two names for the same thing. As far as one being being able to embody both I don't see any reason why that couldn't happen. Plus everything in "creation" has a limit to how long it can last. The only difference is that we humans (and presumably other "intelligent life") attaches terms like death, deceased, and passed away to the passing other ephemeral forms of sentient life. But when we talk about the passing of that which (from our admittedly and hiliarously limited perspective) has not achieved sentience (which I judge to be more an advantage than not) we use terms like oblivion. Even the longest lived structures in the known universe (a slot by the smallest stars, which can live for up to ten times longer than the current age of the observable universe, and black holes, which when they die either explode even more magnificently than the most massive star or just evaporate like morning fog in the sun) eventually either fade away like a lanter of out fuel or explode in spectular fashion.