Widen your idea of life. What if another species has figured out a way around death? What if the idea of a single "life" isn't really a thing, and alien lifefo

Widen your idea of life. What if another species has figured out a way around death? What if the idea of a single "life" isn't really a thing, and alien lifeforms instead live as a single "consciousness" among them all forever alive. Then the idea of spending millions or billions of years traveling around the universe isn't necessarily a "one way trip".