Having a moment watching old AMVs and a DBZ one about Vegeta to Hoobastank's The Reason, was where I started reflecting on the narrative and Toriyama's worldbuilding. Specifically, life and death, of which there's a lot.
I know Goku was supposed to stay dead, that honestly probably a lot of characters were, but with the mechanic of the Dragon Balls and the absolute howling of the fans.... that didn't happen. In fact it's more notable to say who stayed dead instead of who got a second chance and an old friend of mine remarked once on how much it had cheapened death.
I'm not going to dissect it right now it's late and there's a storm but I had a quote present itself to me. My brain was just chewing on all of the above and it spat out:
When dying means nothing, living for something becomes the sacrifice.
So have fun with whatever that is.