Immortals are mortal, mortals immortal, living the other’s death, dead in the others’ life.
Emptiness is what befalls the Everlasting as the everlasting “absence” itself by coming alive. It is the perpetuation of mortal longing, the flourishing dead, the emptiness our absence needs to thrive--- the vitality & appetite in what my companion means by “the others’ life”. Emptiness is the coming to life of the everlasting because “the others’ death” is the reason we are alive.
Gods die so larvae might live because gods come to life so a fly may die.
It cannot be otherwise, there must be gods because there are eggs that penetrate—their instars eat who we are into emptiness.
Life is everlasting because maggots make us immortal.