Today's Stichomancy for George Washington

The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Phaedo by Plato:

generation is in the one case falling asleep, and in the other waking up. Do you agree?

I entirely agree.

Then, suppose that you analyze life and death to me in the same manner. Is not death opposed to life?

Yes.

And they are generated one from the other?

Yes.

What is generated from the living?

The dead.

And what from the dead?