Mortality

[DarkRange55]

Mortality started when life started (or sooner, in some senses).

Depending on how things are defined.

A solar system, or a cave full of crystals, or a geyser, for examples, have something resembling mortality in that if they are destroyed they do not come back in the same form.
Fire and whirlpools have much less of this property, and, as far as we know, an electron has none.

 

[star.trip]

Everything has a beginning and an end, there is nothing eternal. Unfortunately or fortunately, things are like that, maybe there are exceptions.
By the way, very nice comparison of the solar system with a cave of crystals. I would never have thought of that

 

[Forever Sleep]

That's an interesting concept. I'd tend to attribute mortality to living things more than say, natural or weather events. Like, I don't really feel like snowflakes die, they become water. It's like- events like fire, whirlpools, hail stones are more like a transfer of energy, a consequence of certain conditions rather than living things.

I tend to attribute mortality the most to living, conscious things. Still, plants can certainly die. I never thought about crystals dying. It makes me sad when I think about stars dying for some poetic reason. Still, I guess they can take their revenge and come back as a black hole.

There must be some immortal creatures. One species of jellyfish can revert back to an earlier stage of its life cycle. Still, whether it's aware of its own potential I suppose is another matter. I wonder if it can choose to die eventually if it isn't killed at some point.

 

[LaVieEnRose]

The Universe was never going to be a hospitable place to beings capable of contemplating these things. The concatenation of factors that led to human intelligence was definitely a fluke.