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What is Death?
Tyler Volk
其他書名
A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
出版
Turner Publishing Company
, 2007-08-17
主題
Science / Life Sciences / Biology
Science / Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology
ISBN
0470252421
9780470252420
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=xnnuEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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.