why do we die .....,,
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The leading cause of human death in developing countries is infectious disease. The leading causes in developed countries are atherosclerosis (heart disease and stroke), cancer, and other diseases related to obesity and aging.
I want to talk about why we die. And death is such a normal and expected facet of life that it seems that few people question the reason for it. Again, it’s just expected, everybody once they reach a certain age, realizes, “Hey, everybody dies eventually. I’m going to die eventually.” But they never stop and think about actually how weird death is in light of our observations of life and of growth and of creation.
What am I talking about? Well, let’s just say, for example, that you didn’t know that people all eventually die. All right. So I know that sounds hard to imagine, but just imagine you didn’t know people die. And you observed the following. You saw a young woman who began in her midsection to grow larger and larger as every week and month went by. And you asked her, “What’s going on there with your body?”
And she said, “Oh, there’s a baby, a little human being that at one time was just the union of a sperm and an egg, just microscopically small. But the cells kept dividing and dividing and the cells began to specialize and some things became a heart and some cells became lungs, some things became brains and muscle and bone and liver and intestines and eyeballs. And this thing is developing in my body right now.” Well, that’s incredible, right? That’s nothing short of absolutely stunningly astonishing that that would happen. But again, we take that for granted.
“So after about nine months, this baby is going to be developed enough that it can actually exist outside of me. And I’m going to give birth to this little boy or little girl. And as soon as this thing comes out, it’s going to know how to nurse from my breasts. I don’t have to teach it. I don’t have to give it lessons, pre-programmed. And this thing poops and pees and cries, but it doesn’t really do anything much other than that, it sleeps. And that’s how it is for months and months. But really you can see progress because, after so many weeks or months, they start smiling at you when you look at them and they start trying to make some sounds and so forth. And pretty soon they’re lifting up their head when they’re on their belly. And pretty soon they’re pushing up with their arms.”