"What is Death"

How do you perceive death? Are we so emotionally-involved that we cannot reason with ourselves that life continues? Death is an occurrence and phenomenon from which we can learn. Mourning for another is healthy, but so is adapting and having the strength to move on and live life is healthy as well. Emotional obsession is unhealthy, and often taken to irrational solutions taken significantly out of proportion e.g lifting the death penalty because a community of people impose their morals and opinions. Another example could be the laws against Euthanasia in certain states. Our emotions and reason must have a balance concerning the matter of death. A similar argument can be given concerning birth. Birth and death are two veritably significant matters that humans can barely digest, exposing an immaturity that we ourselves can hardly fathom.