What is Death?
A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
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Word Count
64,000 words, Guess
Page Count
256 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivewhatisscientistl00tyle
- Internet Archivewhatisdeathscien0000volk
- ISBN-100471375446
- ISBN-139780471375449
- Goodreads627543
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- LibraryThing570124
- Library of Congress Control Number00059431
- OCLC Control Number44669687
- Better World Books9780471375449
- Open LibraryOL7615977M
Classifications
- LCCQP87 .V65 2002
- LCCQP87.V65 2000
Description
what is death?A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of LifeAnswering 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.
First Sentence
A recent Christmas Eve party found me at my sister's home in New Jersey.
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