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It perfectly embodied "life and death are the opposite faces of the same coin" both literally (the condition at the mountain) and in principle. He kept dying to live and lived to die. Just as she lived to die but died to continue living. And it's not so sad coz they had purpose, making it all the more grotesquely beautiful.
Heck, he was reborn after a beautiful death and she lived to her golden age after dying. ┗( T﹏T )┛