Madeleine’s heart sank. Nemoto would be hard to deal with rationally. People with missions always were. - Stephen Baxter

Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.

It was too anthropomorphic to consider the lifecycle of a star as some analogy of human birth, life and death. A star was a construct of physical processes; the evolution it went through was simply a search for equilibrium stages between changing, opposing forces. There was no life or death involved, no loss or gain: just process.
Why shouldn’t it be beautiful?

Have you studied history, Anna?"
"Yes. The information is limited, the interpretation is partial. But it is interesting.