We see the trees shed their leaves, and new leaves grow come spring. Imagine that you are a leaf, and God/Universe is the tree. The tree, which you in a sense are, lives on. The leaves, which you also are, ends.

That, to my mind, is precisely what death and reincarnation is. The ego ends, the story comes to a conclusion. But the essence lives on to create new egos, new stories.

"The children is my eternal life"