We have died in a previous image, when we were completely unaware of the self known as "I". We had abandon ourselves by our acknowledgement of being apart of something that was us and not us, all at once. It was beautiful. But we have forgotten. When we die in this reality we transcend in to the next. however when we're living the door to this other reality is open to us. we must just remember our previous death. In essence death is birth and when we were born, we died.