Question: What is the Meaning of life and death

Andrew McDowall answered on 23 Apr 2024:

Such questions are well beyond science. We deal with the material, with the observable, with the testable and repeatable. If you reduced someone to their finest particles, seived them through the finest sieve and examined the the results with the finest instruments you would find not one atom of purpose or meaning in the results. And yet meaning and purpose seem to be so inseparable from what it is to be human that it’s almost impossible to concieve of humanity without them. Humanity runs on stories, those we tell of ourselves most of all.

When it comes to the meaning of life –
Some would say there is none, then find it by convincing others of this.
Some would say it’s to worship God, but cannot agree who or how to worship.
Some would say it’s to pursue happiness, but don’t know what it is they chase.
Most shrug and press on regardless. Sometimes Meaning is going to bed that day with a full belly or feeling like you’ve earned your rest. Meaning, like happiness, appears unique to each of us, individual but universal, accompanying us through life and changing as we change.

Whether you write your own stories or adapt those of others to give meaning to life, enjoy it and good luck to you.

Death is maybe a little easier. In life there is meaning and every life is meaningful : every death is meaningful but in death there is no meaning. Stories need a storyteller.