Love and Death, or Shaking the Speare of Shakespeare

I'm writing this as a sort of response to amers' post entitled "Death and Text: Some Shakespeare." I agree with most of what amers has said here, but the comment "Love is not permanent" caused me to raise my eyebrows. I have some issues with that, perhaps because it's a rather broad statement. Love is not permanent to whom? If it is a love that two people share with eachother, and they carry it with them to their deaths (which indeed is inevitable and should be expected), could it not be said that that love was permanent for them? If viewed from a third party, one could say "well, they're both dead, and with it dies their love." But what about love on a universal (or at least global) level? There are 6 billion plus people on the planet as of late, so there's definitely a substantial amount of love in there.

Then I suppose there's the somewhat angsty teen way of looking at it in that all love is destined to fade to black... or perhaps a depressingly gloomy shade of gray.

Regardless of my thoughts on the subject, I want to close this post with one of my favorite quotes. It's from the film "Hedwig and The Angry Inch."

[a very obnoxious woman is singing "I Will Always Love You" in one of the trailers in the park]
Tommy: What do you think? Do you think love lasts forever?
Hedwig: No, but this song does.