Death with no way out. A physical consolation against the fear of death: "what has died does not fall out of the DOGMAuniverse" (ἔξω τοῦ κόσμου οὐ πίπτει) — there is nowhere to fall, for the world contains all. So death is not annihilation but a displacement within the whole: it remains "here" (ὧδε), "here" it is transformed (μεταβάλλει), EXERCISEdissolving into its own (διαλύεται εἰς τὰ ἴδια) — into the TERMelements (στοιχεῖα), which are elements "of the world and of you" (τοῦ κόσμου καὶ σά).

The elements do not murmur. The closing model is the elements themselves: "these too change, and murmur not" (οὐ γογγύζει). If the senseless elements accept their transformation without complaint, still less does it befit the rational to grumble at its own dissolution (cf. 04-14 — to return into the λόγος that begot it; DOGMAthe acceptance of the necessary). Your body is a loan from the common stuff, repaid to the lender at no loss. The strict term by the word is στοιχεῖον (στοιχεῖά); μεταβάλλει carries transformation, but the verbal form is not entered among the terms. The governing discipline is desire (to accept dissolution), the sustaining one assent (not to judge death an annihilation).