The connection between death and sleeping is that no matter how we try to avoid them they inevitably will come. For instance we will die of sleep deprivation faster than starvation. So in other words you will either sleep or die. There is also an interesting that when we sleep we often enter a dream, another world, or black emptiness. death is the same in that we will go to on to an after life or another state of being much like a dream or blackness for those who don't believe that this life is all we have. Either way they are very similar.
The similarities were expressed well in Death, be not proud by John Donne when it stated that:
From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then from thee much more must flow,
This shows that death much like sleep can be restful and even a pleasure of sorts. It allows us to escape the torments that can happen in our world. Maybe this is what Richard Cory was seeking when he decided to kill himself.
I think this way of thinking of death is a lot better than some of the more tortured and painful ways that some people believe can happen to us at death.
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