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What Is Death?

The Infinite Monkey Cage

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The End of the Pandas

Pandas deserve to be extinct in some ways, says Becket. They're reproductive for what, about 20 minutes every 30 years or something. But the pandas aren't building nice, perfect habitats for humans to reproduce in. And it's better for them to have this death machinery and to kill themselves. It's better for their relatives that they kill themselves and prevent the virus from spreading. This suggests that death is an inbuilt and perhaps necessary part of life...

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