In my previous post, I touched briefly on the cosmic view of biomechanical death and the life cycle, and what those concepts might look like to our universe at large.  Before I can talk about that, though, I have to talk about what death doesn't look like to the cosmos.   First and foremost, the cycles of birth and death are an integral part of universal renewal - everything everywhere is reaffirming itself forever without end - plants die and returned to the soil from which they spring; animals perish and their flesh returns once again the Earth that nourished them through life.  Oceans breach the shores and recede in their tides; wind whips across the plains and them subsides into its rest.  The ebb and flow of life is everywhere, all the time, all at once.   Human are a part of this cycle as well.  We have long fancied ourselves as separate from it, but this is not the case.  Our sense of removal has been constructed from a misunderstood r...