What is Death?: A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life
Publisher: Wiley
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2002-03-01
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0471375446
ISBN-13: 9780471375449
what is death? A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life Answering 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 bi...