Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa ("of a hundred paths") 3.6.2.16

3.6.2.16

ṛṇaṃ ha vai puruṣo jāyamāna eva | mṛtyorātmanā jāyate sayadyajate yathaiva tatsuparṇī devebhya ātmānaṃ nirakrīṇītaivamevaiṣa etanmṛtyorātmānaṃ niṣkrīṇīte

Verily, even in being born, man, by his own self, is born as a debt (owing) to death. And in that he sacrifices, thereby he redeems himself from death, even as Suparnî then redeemed herself from the gods.