23.3
The ultimate understanding of death
 
  For all that we have spoken of death, the fear and understanding of death remains one of the hardest for human beings. It is not that we fail to understand the genetic requirement of humans to die, nor the general path of the mind after death. The fundamental difficulty lies with an adequate answer to the question "why do I have to die?".  
23.3.1 Death of other life is vital to the sustainment of ours  
  However we choose to describe it, human beings require the eating of other life forms to survive. Even a grain of wheat is from a living plant.  
  Death is therefore all around us and in our homes at the same time as life. While there has been a tremendous growth in the following of a vegetarian philosophy ( and not eat meat), we still must cause others living things to die so we might live.  
  The phrase "For I to live, something has to die" is therefore true for all humans.  
23.3.2 To live I die and the understanding of death and life  
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To Live I die

  
 

To live, one dies

  
 

One dies to live

  
 

I die to live

  
 

1 becomes 2 to live

  
 

2 is to live

  
 

1 is not to live

  
 

I become more to live

  
 

To live is more

  
  We are only more, when we are more than one.  
23.3.3 The understanding of "to live, 1 dies"  
  In the statement "to live, I die", we see the intrinsic nature of the understanding of life and death- that being one is not enough, one needs to be more- but to change requires the death of one state of being and birth of another state of being.  
  Death is the end of something, yet always the beginning of another. Death is merely a doorway through which we all pass to something else. Without death, there literally would be no life, from the very moment the universe came into existence.  
  Once again we see the mathematical and philosophy consistently aligned.  
     
     
     
 
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