Life and Death: A Cosmological View

Suppose we were immortal. a situational issue. Even though we reported that the global population increased by 100 million last year, Earth's population will quickly outgrow the resources it can support if people keep having children. As a result, the day we cease dying must be when we discover another planet to accommodate our surplus of air-breathing humans. This need for additional planets will never disappear, but the United States is the only country with one. Although it's better to be living than dead, we have no dread of never having been born because it's better to be existing at all than never to have existed. Science doesn't have much to say about Valhalla, Elysium, Hades, heaven, hell, or the spirits of your ancestors; however, the methods and tools of science do make cold, concrete statements regarding what happens when you die. [Music] Religion throughout history has provided comprehensive explanations for what happens after death; for some, this includes what happened before you were born, a basic tenet of reincarnation. The electrical source of all your ideas, feelings, and sensory perceptions of the universe ceases to exist when you die, and your brain, which ordinarily lights up a mri, becomes oxygen-starved. There is no proof that you then regain the consciousness you had while living. We know that's you vanishing because people who suffer a string of fatal strokes cruelly and systematically lose the function of their bodies and minds as they slowly deteriorate into a condition of non-existence. It's not as strange as it seems. were you conscious before you were developed did you whine where am i how come i'm not on the planet no you just didn't exist and if you're lucky to be born your non-existence prior to life bookends your non-existence following death consider that individuals are typically conceived in the single most intimate act of human feelings we then gestate in utero for nine months suckle for another 12 months and need continual care through our toddler years afterwards humans go to elementary school to learn reading writing as well as arithmetic in middle school and high school we also discovered biology chemistry perhaps physics we examine works of literature we acquire knowledge history and the arts could even play sports lifelong connections germinate from these operations we might also understand languages spoken by other humans within the world we participate in all the intermittent rituals that we keep in modern the community as a binding force that brings us collectively adulthood arrives 21 years go by at a velocity of 30 kilometers per second the planet completed 21 orbits within the sun a total of 20 billion kilometers through time all along humans create refine and perfect anti-personnel weapons such as land mines attack rifles missiles as well as bombs any one of which may end a life in a right away wars have taken an unbelievable and tragic toll on human life because pre-civilization yet even excluding organized armed conflict More than 400 000 murders of humans by other humans occur each year. Yes, over one thousand homicides occur every day in the world. Do you realize how precious life is? The genetic code that creates viable variations of us is capable of no fewer than 10 to the 30th variations. This astronomically enormous amount is followed by 30 zeros, offering a million trillion feasible souls run through them all. Eventually, we end up with you once more or at least your twin, but that is unlikely to occur anytime soon since so far, our branch of the tree of life has only produced z.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 one percent of all feasible humans forcing the conclusion that most individuals who could ever are present will never even be developed each of us for all useful purposes is distinctive in the universe now as well as forever being active is the moments to rejoice being alive each waking instant all together the way why not aim to make the globe a better place right now than yesterday merely for the fortunate of having resided in it on my deathbed i'd be disappointed to miss the intelligent inventions as well as discoveries that develop from our collectively human ingenuity assuming the systems that foster like advances stay intact that's what powered the exponential development of science as well as technology in my lifetime i'd additionally wonder whether civilization's arc of social advancement will go on with all its fits and starts and thus honour any time traveler from the persecuted spectrum of humanity who chose to come to the future rather than the previous on the entire i don't anxiety passing rather i fear a life where i might have achieved additional an epitaph deserving of a tombstone comes from the 19th century the instructor horace mann i ask you to cherish up in your hearts these my leaving words be ashamed to die till you have won certain victory for mankind our primal urge to keep seeking up is surely bigger than our primal encourage to keep murdering one another if so then human interest and wonder the twin chariots of cosmic learning will guarantee that starry mails persist to arrive Yes, life is superior than decease, and it's also improved than never having been born, but every one of us is alive towards incredible odds; we won the lotto just once and we can use our abilities of motive to understand how the globe operates. We likewise get to odor the plants, enjoy divine sunsets as well as sunrises, as well as gaze deeply through the night skies that cradle us; these understandings compel us for our brief time on Earth to become more effectively shepherds of our own unique civilization.