A Lesson in Dragonspeak

[Canadane]

This is great stuff. I always feel like understanding the language is the best way to get a picture of the lives and culture of others.
One thing did puzzle me, however...

While to us, death represents the absence of life, the dragons look at it as a part of life—something that would not exist without life—and therefore add that [n].

Wouldn't this be an outlook of more mortal beings? Taking humans for example, as I don't know the expected lifespans of Eorzean habitants, almost everyone will go through lengths to extend their lives, through medicine, doctors, healthy lifestyles, etc. but everyone, as much as they may not want to admit, understands they will die one day. It's sad, and everyone copes with it slightly differently, but it's part of life.

But here we have these timeless beings the Dragons. Who live near endlessly, won't falter from physical wounds so easy, and have survived multiple era ending calamities. If anything is to be called immortal, it's these dragons. While death is certain to happen to some, it seems it's rare enough to almost dismiss as a possibility. Especially since there's so few of the first born. Things simply aren't happening that leads to their ultimate permanent end. So why do they consider death a necessary part of life? It seems to counter their very existence.

Or is this just my mortal brain being unable to fully comprehend their longevity?

[Yshnal]

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I think that it's precisely because of their long lives that they get to see plenty of death around them, of those that aren't dragons and of lesser dragons too. Remember that the lesser ones don't live as long as the elder ones, and that the later are the ones that decide how their language is. So it makes sense that in their long and almost unending lives they've learned to accept and understand that death is part of the cicle of life, something that for them happens almost constantly, so to speak (the reason for this is the same as the one given for them seeing what happened 1000 years ago as something of the present).

It's a bit convoluted, but I hope that it makes some sense.