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Full Idea
Death, like generation, is only the transformation of the same animal, which is sometimes augmented and sometimes diminished.
Gist of Idea
Death and generation are just transformations of an animal, augmented or diminished
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (Principle of Life and Plastic Natures [1705], p.195)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'Leibniz Selections', ed/tr. Wiener,Philip P. [Scribners 1951], p.195
A Reaction
Leibniz has a very unusual view of death, since neither minds nor their bodies can ever be wholly destroyed. Death is a kind of shrinking. I suspect that he was wrong about that.