On this final page of the flowchart, we move through active life of the product, renewal cycles, and finally end-of-life and after-life stages of a product.  When a product no longer has a life in any form, then our work if finally considered done.

And now that you understand better the complexities of electronic resources and the workflow needed to manage those complexities, it is time to turn our attention to functional requirements for a system to support that management.