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| Staff | High Energy Magic BuildingResearch Projects Life and Death Most of my short essays are about life on the Discworld; its may passion as you may be able to tell. But this time I want to talk about its opposite. Death, and death. Death is, as everybody knows, an anthropomorphic personification. He is the human meaning of death which evolved into a shape. He has a sythe and a cowl; he is of course a 7 foot skeleton. Death with a lower case d is the ending of life, or lack of life. Death's job is to make sure that death happens. What would happen if he stopped doing his job? Last year this happened with disasterous results. Every living thing has "life force" otherwise known as the soul. On death the Soul or Life Force is cut free from the body by Death. This Life Force of Soul goes onto another place. Nobody knows were of course. But at this time were Death was replaced the Souls of Life Force were not moving on, but staying in the mortal world. Sometimes this happens quite naturally. We call them ghost when the soul remains outside the body, or zombies when the life force remains inside. Nobody is quite sure why this happens from time to time; at the retirement of Death however, we were quite sure it was not ment to happen to this extent. I also did not realise before this time about the true exsistance of "half-lives". For instance take an object: It starts its "Life by beening made" It does a job It get broken It is dead. Before this even I'm sure most people only though of this as a metaphorical life not a real life. But in a way it is. When Death was retired life force from objects caused major problems. But I don't understand why this happened; surely a doornob cannot have a soul. In which case does that mean that life force is not the soul? Lets all hope that Death does not retire again. P. Stibbons Reader in Invisible Writings |