No one gets out of this life alive.
That may sound pessimistic, but it isn't. Everyone dies. Sooner or later we all breathe our last, but death doesn't have to be a bad thing. Tolkien, as a Christian, believed that death was conquered, and can hold claim to nothing more than the body. Aragorn knew this, and he also knew that his spirit would go on: "we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory". That sounds hopeful to me, and even joyous! The passing of death is a victory for Aragorn, as it was for many of Tolkien's character's. Denethor's corruption caused his passage from life to be gruesome and twisted, but it didn't have to be.
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"'You," he said, "tell her all. What good came to you? Do you rejoice that Maleldil became a man? Tell her of your joys, and of what profit you had when you made Maleldil and death acquainted.'" -Perelandra, by C.S. Lewis
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