{"text":"It may be said, in broad-brush terms, that the primary purpose of life is the continuation of life. A deep program for survival and reproduction underwrites the complex cycles of life, in which death is the grand equalizer. There is, however, a peculiar novelty: human awareness of the cycle of life and a capacity to anticipate our own, individual death.","author":"Richard J. Borden","tags":["cycle-of-life","death","ecology","human","purpose-of-life"],"id":106919,"author_id":"Richard+J.+Borden"}