Death of Author

"The reader is the space on which all the quotations that make up a writing are inscribed without any of them being lost; a text’s unity lies not in its origin but in its destination. Yet this destination cannot any longer be personal: the reader is without history, biography, psychology; he is simply that someone who holds together in a single field all the traces by which the written text is constituted."
Roland Barthes

The author dies, with his ideas the moment he puts them down or the moment he publishes them?
whichever, once read the author dies and the reader is born; it does not matter what the author meant, intended to say or thought, from there onwards the reader only matters and his understanding, the reader gives meaning to the writing the reader gives life and identity to the writing, the reader perceives, describes and comprehends.
Can we accept and face the fact that: the understandings of the readers is the true achievement of a writing, what the author means does not matter