First principles – how life works
Everything dies.
Two thousand years ago at Pompei, people knew Vesuvius was going to destroy the city, but it takes time and money to leave. The less money you have the more time you need and there was only so much time. Some of the ash-preserved molds of people we have are down by the shore waiting for the ferry. The wealthy people escaped and the poor people died. But that was two thousand years ago and eventually the wealthy people died as well.
Everyone dies.
Life is full of death. There’s yours at the end. Then there is everything you’re connected to in some way that dies while you’re alive. Then there’s everything that has to die so that you live. Whatever you eat used to be alive or could not have been created without the death of something or both. So every person who is alive or has ever lived only got that time based on the death of other living things. This is true for all living things that eat to my understanding although I am not a biologist. Even plants may need death to survive in a few different ways; for example if their pollination depends on an animal species like bees that eats. Life cannot therefore be separated from death even if you were able to put off your personal death indefinitely. Life implies death.
