Chapter 2 makes death the question that reveals what a person actually believes about life. If the body ends, what happens to mind, heart, ideal, and hope? The chapter treats that as the core human problem religions exist to answer.
Its answer is not endless bodily survival but eternal existence in a different mode. Human beings are meant for enduring life as invisible beings of love because the eternal God desires eternal counterparts.
The chapter then turns from destiny to ownership. Death exposes the insufficiency of self-centered living because life did not originate in the self to begin with.