>>37445524You're missing the point retardchama!
The point is the painful taking away of what you are and were being forcibly changed and broken (in a most painful way) before you are reforged into something else.
Every bit of your previous self is destroyed when you become.
As the "Barkeep" entry mentioned
>as the process does not truly prolong one's life — on the opposite, it kills everyone who undergo it, creating an instance of Barkeep in their stead. 
