"The means by which an ecosystem keeps itself alive, selects its fittest, controls its scale, gives peace to the tormented, enables young life, and accumulates a grammar of inherited meaning as generations change places."

The large-scale system, relying on its size and technology, and making an enemy of death which should be its friend, joins a battle which it cannot win.  In systems thinking, death is sacred."


~  the opening and closing sentences of
Lean Logic's exceptional entry on 'Death'