Jan 19 2009
“Defeating Death” Site Highlights the Evil of Human Mortality
For an excellent illustration of just how horrific the status quo is with regard to human mortality, I encourage everyone to visit the site Defeating Death. This site is highly concise, powerful, and striking. About 150,000 people die every day. This website’s dynamic counter keeps track of how many people died since the user came to the website and categorizes the deaths. It is amazing how many more people are killed by so-called “natural causes” than are killed by war, violence, and accidents. Since I began writing this post (about two minutes ago), over 500 people have died of all causes. Of these, only about 30 were killed by wars, other violence, and accidents. The vast majority die of some kind of “natural” body disorders. Of course, there is nothing natural about these perils – perils like cancer, cardiovascular disease, and illnesses of the brain.
This is the great evil of our time. This is what we must defeat – or else all is lost for us.
Sincerely,
Gennady Stolyarov II
People die. That’s a fact of life. Get over it.
Why cast a blind, cynical eye to the most horrific events of our time and of human history? Surely, if there is any evil to fight, this is it.
This is the elephant in the room that most people ignore - afraid to wrestle with the implications of confronting it head on.