But what might seem dull at first...

Eckhart Tolle uses the analogy of the ocean, and I used that myself several years ago to explain the immortality of what I considered beingness, conciousness. The drop of water that falls into the ocean and dies as a drop, but then experience itself as greater than it used to be. I was trying to explain the immortality of experiencing and that true death cannot really be experienced.

Tolle explains it a bit differently though: