• Question: Why do you like death when death is the worst thing in the world.

    Asked by viper2 to Dr D on 18 Jun 2013. This question was also asked by robertwillard.
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      Andrew Devitt answered on 18 Jun 2013:


      Death of organisms is not great. But death of individual cells is good for us.

      So, if you didn’t have cells dying all the time, you’d have died already. Your immune system would’ve killed you off or a cancer cell would’ve taken over. more likely you wouldn’t have developed properly in the uterus. You would certainly have had webbed hands and feet….. cell death gets rid of those webs.

      Death can be great and good.

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