“There is only one way to finish, and that is to swallow your umbrella and thus, at the same time, the possibility of opening it: the image of death and rigor mortis.
But there are two ways to be free of your end again. Either not fully to use your capabilities (the man who doesn't open his umbrella even when it is raining) or to pass beyond your capabilities into an undefined field (for example, opening your umbrella even when it is not raining). The problem remains one of knowing whether you can pass beyond without going to the very end. In other words, whether you can become immortal without passing through death. Now, beyond the end, we do not know what happens. The umbrella's enigma remains unsolved.”