People who have your back and care for you and take care of you, family can range from your biological family to people who adopted you, but it can also be a great friend. Family is someone you would die for, and that person would do the same for you.
A loving family takes care of their children, and makes sure they deserve the best of all. A loving family acts as good neighbours. So a loving family is what the society should be fillled with.
The speech is very focued, he seems to have his mind set to it, the tone relates to this situation in the text because they are talking about before death, and he is saying how he wants to stay the same when he dies like his body would stay the same.
