what is death?
A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
Answering the question "What is
death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention
to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how
expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within
the biosphere. Death now is tied to all of life, via the atmosphere and ocean.
Death supports the awesome biological enterprise of making abundant the green
and squiggly life. Talk about death has headed us straight into a contemplation
of life, not only individual life, but big life, life on a global scale. Death
and life are neatly dovetailed by the supreme cabinetmaker of evolution. Again,
the crucial feature is not the death of any one creature per se, but rather
what is done with death. To reach into the meaning of death, we must reach out
into the wider context of which death is a part.
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