The idea of becomings as encounters we have with partial deaths while still alive takes us back to Deleuze and Guattari's notion that 'the experience of death ... occurs in life and for life ... in every intensity as passage or becoming'. From this stanspoint, processes of becoming, in which we undergo continuous small deaths, can put us in the path of a more impersonal more sober relation to our own death. if we are successful at confronting and sustaining their intensity, processes of becoming can soften the rigidity of our selves, weaken our grasp of permanent realities and identities, and mitigate our fears and anxieties toward change. In fulfilling the immanence of death to life - offering us rudimentary but real instances of the experience of death-in-life - processes of becoming help us accept the idea of life continuing beyond 'me'.

Elena del Rio, The Grace of Destruction