【Death】is a great question

When I was in the fourth grade of elementary school, I suddenly became aware of "death" and felt quite frightened. My fears have gotten to the point where they will give me a little insomnia before going to bed.

My fear is: how painful it will be to die? How desolate and lonely is the world after death? If you are not alone after death, you will be accompanied by a group of lonely ghosts. How do you adapt?

It was not until later that I came across some reports about suicide. It was mentioned that many people were also afraid of the pain before dying, so they chose to end their lives by jumping off buildings or drinking bullets. The reason is that "the pain is over and it's over..." After that, there is no consciousness at all, so why is there any fear and pain?

It turned out that "death", like "injection", is something that can be ended with a little pain. As a child, I defined myself this way in order to comfort myself.

Unexpectedly, when he was dying, he still had a fear that could not be overcome.

I have always sought explanations from various angles on the matter of death. Here are some concepts that I find more comfortable with:

Life is an irreversible journey towards death.

There is no "death" in the universe, only the matter of "being there or not". Just as there is no "darkness" in the universe, only "there is no light". In other words, "death" and "darkness" do not exist, they are just the disappearance of "life" and "light".

This is too philosophical, right? It turns out that I have been worrying about things that do not exist, so should I think about the "life" issue of "existence" before "death"?

When it comes to the formation of life, biology talks about "protoplasm".

Protoplasm is not a single compound or some compound, but a complex colloid composed of multiple compounds. This colloid has the ability of continuous self-renewal and becomes a system of living substances. The protoplasm includes the cytoplasm and the nucleus, and is the part of the cell that is surrounded by the protoplasmic membrane and has life.

In 1839, Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkyně named the colloidal liquid filled with cells as protoplasm (the original substance of life).

After the mid-19th century, the French botanist Meures used protoplasm to summarize all the contents (including cytoplasm and nucleus) in the cell. The German anatomist M. Schltze emphasized that protoplasm is "the material basis of life".

At the end of the nineteenth century, the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley gave a definition of protoplasm: protoplasm is the material basis of life.

From the chemical elements of the composition, the basic composition is similar. Among them, there are 6 kinds of elements that are relatively large in quantity, namely: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, phosphorus, and sulfur (accounting for 95% of the total).

After popularizing the protoplasm, I suddenly thought, why no one has prepared the protoplasm according to the chemical formula (it shouldn't be difficult, right?)? But even if it is adjusted, the colloid will not come alive because of it. It seems that there is a missing process of "pointing stone into gold" , so that it has not been given life.

So, who has the power to turn stone into gold? Which god (or which religion) is it? Is the disappearance of life also determined by him?

Before I knew it, I wanted to explore more and more, from death, slowly to philosophy and life, then to biology and chemistry, and also to religion and spirituality.

Unexpectedly, the fear before my death has stimulated my thirst for knowledge.

Death is really a big question!