Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25480519-20141030235702/@comment-3146749-20150521212855

Hold on, I get it:

A metaphor is technically a figure of speech, identifying two things similar. Muscle Man was trying to give up his bachelor self and be a new man for Starla, using "death" as a metaphor. Giving up your bachelor self isn't the same as death, so Benson was right.