As Billy leaves the war front, he is at his happiest moment in a coffin. Billy is not dead. Instead, this scene might be the liveliest scene of Billy in the book. Billy's emotions are under turmoil as he reminiscent of his 5 year old self without time travel. At the same time, descriptions of vanity are used to depict Billy's environment. Vonnegut uses all of these scenes to claim that Billy has no longer given up on life. Billy has a connection to reality because of his emotions and the tangible. However, while Billy comes out of the war feeling alive, he has lost his innocence as a baby. War kills the child inside of everyone and Billy pilgrim is no exception. Billy is leaving in a coffin because the small child at the beginning of the book