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What?
I hope you are not serious, my fellow mortal!
Not serious when you suggest that we should
Eliminate death.

How could we?

This is preposterous!

But if you are serious, tell me how could we ever
Exist without the Lord of "darkness?"

Come on,
Do not be surprised by my question!
It may sound illogical to you at first, but
Don't you know that life is based on death?

You don't?    
How come?

Don't you know that for something in order to live,
Something else has to die?

Let us take the Lion for instance, can the Lion survive if
Another animal doesn't die?
Can an eagle, a python, a shark thrive if other living organisms
Do not fall prey to their voracious appetite?

Of course, they cannot!

Certainly, 
You may think of the sheep or of any other herbivorous animal
That does not kill in order to live
But
Even they eat grass which grows because microorganisms die
And we, my dearest friend, being omnivorous eat the sheep along
With thousands of other animals to ensure our survival.

Yes,
I know,
You would tell me now that you wish to eliminate death
Because you desire us not to die but to keep on living!

Let me tell you something, my dearest friend,
If this is really the reason that prompts you to wish death's demise, you Commit the worst of crimes because: 
First, you wish to condemn Man to unending suffering and
Second, you deprive us all of being reborn into eternal life.

You see, my friend, 
It would not be good to eliminate death, for death is
Our liberator and our one-way ticket to immortality!*  




 



© Demetrios Trifiatis
      18 June 2021

* I was a ten-year-old boy when my father died on this day many years ago but still he lives in my heart and in my mind!

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