For man this signifies that although life appears to end in the ultimate limitation of death, it must be welcomed as positive in value-even the falling curve acquires positive value as an innate function oftotality.1°7 For those who recognize life and death as part of the same unity, the falling curve of life terminates not in nothingness, but in never-ending totality. Death has been sublimated into life, not as Dionysian continuation, but as transformation of a finite object within an eternal whole by Rainer Maria Rilke.
