Death as a major theme

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Hi, I'm a new member so this is my first post, which I hope will be 
OK.

I've been browsing through the more recent posts and haven't found 
this discussed recently so forgive me if I'm going over old ground. I 
am finding myself more and more intrigued by J K's handling of death. 
>From Voldemort's name (meaning either theft of death or flight from 
death in French) to the calling of his disciples 'death eaters' it is 
clear to me that Voldemort's obsession is not just the standard evil 
dictator's aim of world domination but to achieve immortality in this 
world and to pass on that to his selected followers. The spell to 
conjure the dark mark, mors mordre, is, if my Latin serves, also 
referring to the death of death. Given that Dumbledore describes 
death in book one as the 'last great adventure to the well ordered 
mind', it seems to me that part of Voldemort's evil lies in his 
refusal to accept death (and presumably what comes beyond death). We 
are also told not just that there will be more deaths in the 
subsequent books but also that we will learn more about the nature of 
death in J K's vision of the world. For example she has said in an 
interview we will learn why some people become ghosts and some don't. 
I find this a very interesting theme and wondered if others agreed 
with my thoughts on Voldemort's aims. As we know names are very 
significant throughout the canon and I can't imagine she would cal 
him theft of death without good reason.

Mercia