Life- the power of continuity. Death- the power of discontinuity

You said: I'm afraid.
Even when you believe in eternity, in God,
You know that whatever you are, whatever you feel
Won't continue.
My silent one.
You died the way you lived:
God in your soul.
The fear, the loneliness in your pulse.

Background: there were the diseases of poverty, of hunger. Here- a religious Jew, a neighbor, desperately ill. His wife speaks.