"Is death the truest kind of life" (Chapter Nine, page 196)? What does that question mean in the context of the chapter?

In Chapter Nine, Paz poses the question "Is death the truest kind of life?" (Page 196). He has just explained that his understanding of life is when all contradictions are reconciled. Life and death, motion and rest, night and day are no longer opposing. Perhaps death takes a person to a place where those elements do not exist as contradictions. That then, is life in a much fuller sense than we know it now. While living on Earth, we are forced to choose between those elements, and can never have one without losing the other. But, as Paz points out, perhaps upon death those elements in opposition to one another are reconciled.