If we choose to consider evolution - the process through which natural selection brings us into being - as a process or a machine, then I think it would be fair to label it an Anti-Death Machine. Right down to the DNA, evolution outputs organisms that are conditioned to avoid death and to procreate. Their very nature is based around certain protocols.
Fascinating! I think it is a curious paradox that death sustains life through the processes of continual renewal. Among many great lines I especially like your: 'We could take action to not priorize mindless clinging to life within society.' My own experience is that, because I am now in sight of an end, I have accepted its inevitability and am learning to live every moment as though it is my last. It is this lesson that I wish I had had the intelligence to learn at the other end of my life. I didn't because I believed the clerics and doomsayers knew more than I - now I ignore them and savour the joy in this moment...
Please find an Illuminated Understanding of death, evolution and everything else too via these references:
http://beezone.com/1main_shelf/death_message.html
http://www.adidaupclose.org/death_and_dying/index.html
http://beezone.com/2main_shelf/fiveevolutionarystatesoftrueman.html
http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds6.html The Seven Stages of Life
http://www.integralworld.net/reynolds38.html
On health and healing http://www.conductivityhealing.com
Fascinating! I think it is a curious paradox that death sustains life through the processes of continual renewal. Among many great lines I especially like your: 'We could take action to not priorize mindless clinging to life within society.' My own experience is that, because I am now in sight of an end, I have accepted its inevitability and am learning to live every moment as though it is my last. It is this lesson that I wish I had had the intelligence to learn at the other end of my life. I didn't because I believed the clerics and doomsayers knew more than I - now I ignore them and savour the joy in this moment...