A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
War is merely a continuation of politics,
It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home
Death is a continuation of my life without me...
Politics is a continuation of economics by other means
Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?
You have to be very careful when you're working on a sequel, because it has to be a continuation of what you did before.
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.