What Is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life

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What Is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
by. Tyler Volk, ISBN: 0-471-15100-9
E-Book, November 2002
Wiley List Price: US $27.95



An exploration of the meaning of death and its profound implications about the meaning of life.

In the winter of 1997, biologist and critically acclaimed science writer Tyler Volk began suffering from mysterious physical ailments that would bring him face to face with his own mortality. This experience led him to explore what death means to us?and to discover that our mortality is, paradoxically, extraordinarily life affirming. In What Is Death? Volk shows how we deal with death psychologically and come to inner peace; how as a culture we find our funeral rituals a tremendous comfort and a revitalization of community; and how death evolved at the cellular level and stands as one of the most beautiful necessities in our biosphere. Here is death that is at once an end and a beginning, a source of dignity and a revelation, the basis of who we are as people and as a people.

We age, and most of us come to accept the persistent specter of death as an inevitable part of being alive. It?s the price we disburse at the end, a price for the gift of life.

We don?t normally revel in this state of affairs, of course. I, for one, wouldn?t mind cheating the game. But it?s futile to think about playing without paying. Though the advances of medical science often do lengthen
our term of ephemerality, they cannot promise us eternity. In short, we are faced with a simple fact:
?life, thus death.?

This simple phrase?life, thus death?summarizes my core theme: the bond between life and death. But I am primarily intrigued with how this bond can be expressed (and perh aps far better expressed) by reversing the phrase. Let?s flip the logic around and say ?death, thus life.? How can death precede life? Are there cases in which death is paid for not at the end but at the beginning of life?

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