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Ryanfire · 08-02-2002, 05:54 AM

Contemplate this Coldwind:

What is the intrinsic value of death?

Joel · 08-11-2002, 11:00 AM

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Being Dead

I know that on my death, the atoms that have been my body and brain, and created my mind, will return to the universe. They'll stay around on Earth for millions of years, inhabiting the bodies of countless people and other organisms, but eventually, eons from now, they will return to the great engines of creation that formed them. The stars. When the earth is a sterile, charred rock, my body will be part of stars, planets, comets' tails and brightly shining nebulae. Some of me will briefly fuel a distant sun and be burnt into energy, and the photons that were once me will skim the edges of the universe, spiral into black holes, and maybe illuminate the face of a child looking at the night sky for the very first time. This is immortality. This is life and this is death. This is me.

I'm pretty sure I've seen this quote before. For some reason it brings to mind Carl Sagan. I'll have to go home and see what I can dig up....

EvilTeuf · 08-11-2002, 11:39 AM

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Originally posted by Joel:
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I'm pretty sure I've seen this quote before. For some reason it brings to mind Carl Sagan. I'll have to go home and see what I can dig up....</strong>

Mark Twain also said something similar.

Edit: And to get to the original point of the thread, human life is not valuable because of what it is, but because of what it may become.

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