Death was born precisely seven hundred million years ago. Up until
then, life was limited to single-cell organisms. Under this type of
organism the cell's life was infinite since it was able to reproduce
identically forever (we can still find traces of these single-celled
"entities" in the coral reefs).
One fine day, two cells met, communicated, and decided to work
together. This gave birth to multi-celled entities. Simultaneously
death made its apparition.
How are the two related???
When two cells wish to associate with another, they are forced to
communicate and this in turn leads to a distribution of tasks so as to
be more efficient. They therefore decide that both of them shouldn't
bother to digest food, one of them will spot the food and the other
will digest it.
So in consequence, the more the concentration of cells grew, the
more they became specialized in the specific task they handled.The more
they became specialized, the more each cell became weaker.
This weakness kept growing until the cell lost its immortality.
And so death was born. Nowadays, when we look at another person we
should see a huge amount of cells extremely specialized and that
communicate incessantly.
Our eye cells are very different from the cells in our livers...
the first ones tell our liver that they can see a warm dish and
therefore the second ones start producing bile much longer before the
dish comes into the mouth. In the human body, everything is
specialized, everything communicates, and therefore everything is
fragile and mortal.
The necessity of death can be explained in an other way. Death is
indispensable to insure the balance between species. If a
multi-cellular species was immortal, they would continue to specialize
until it would become so efficient that it would compromise the
perpetuity of all other life forms.
A cancerous liver cell permanently produces new pieces of liver
without taking into consideration the other cells who are telling it
that its not necessary to produce any more. The cancerous cell has the
ambition to regain its old immortality and that's why it kills the
whole organism... It's similar to a player in a rugby team that never
passes, everything around him/her crumbles...
The cancer cell can be called an autistic cell, thats why it's
dangerous. It reproduces constantly, and, in its crazy search for
immortality, it kills everything around it.
Morality: Those who care only about themselves do irreparable
damage to the world around them... this is prolly the oldest morality
in the world!
