Both individual fulfillment and the ecological balance of life on this planet are best served by dying when our inherent biology decrees that we do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
Nature creates while destroying, and doesn't care whether it creates or destroys as long as life isn't extinguished, as long as death doesn't lose its rights.
In the end we discover the only condition for living is to die.
Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
Our life is made by the death of others.
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.
I consider that all which lives must feed itself and nourish itself in a manner suitable to the way in which it lives.
Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
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