The problem with time is that as mobile organisms, we experience our situation as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our concept of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. Codified as measures of duration.

The reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present, as the events come and go.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Different clocks can run at different rates simply because they are separate actions. Think metabolism.

that culture is about getting us to function as one larger social entity, by obeying the same rules, following the same narratives, using the same measures, it might seem like there is some universal flow of time, but it's rabbit time, turtle time, etc. Nature is so diverse and so integrated, because everything doesn't march to the beat of the same drummer.

Time is asymmetric, because it is a measure of action and action is inertial. The earth only turns one direction.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present, creating time, as well as temperature, pressure, color and sound. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

As the present, energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy and feeding the flame, while the central nervous system sorts the information.

Though don't try pointing this out to the theoretical physicists. In fact, the one group of scientists I've found, that see this as interesting, are neurologists, because the question of consciousness is still such an open issue, that it gives some insight into it.

As for death, think of life as like a sentence. The end is just punctuation. What matters is how well you tie the rest of the story together.