Life as the Absence of Death

Alright, I've got 24 minutes to churn out a blog post here.  I know it's my own fault for having waited this long, but I've been doing other things and talking to other people, so blogging hasn't been my primary concern.  On the other hand, I finally have an interesting idea to explore, so I'm going to try to talk about that as much as I can in the next couple of minutes.

We generally think of death as the absence of life.  When life, the active component, is no longer present, it is then that we are left with death.  Death is the absence of this element that is life.  In analyzing this, I will be looking at life as the natural state then and death as what happens when this so-called natural state ceases to exist for whatever reason.

Looking at life as the absence of death, then, means that death is the natural state and life is what happens when death ceases to exist.  In this way, it is more difficult to see life as an active thing, since all active things have to stop.  In a way then, we have to visualize life as a perpetual motion machine and death as a stopping power.  That way, death is the actual active element in the system, if that makes any sense.

When the active stopping power (death) is not around, life goes on.  Just like in our world, when the active thing (life) is not around, death prevails, as it is the absence of life.  It is difficult to explain this because of our understanding of "natural state."  Many people see death as the natural step, since life springs up, leads its course, and ceases to exist, lapsing back into death.  But we are looking at things (in our world system) in terms of life.  So its absence is unusual, it must be caused by something.

Thus in this life-as-the-absence-of-death system, we look at things in terms of death.  Death is the general state of being.  Once death invades a given system (i.e. life) which cannot all of a sudden spring into existence since death will not simply disappear out of time and/or space, the motion is put to a stop.  Thus death is the active force we are looking at.

It's a really odd way to look at a system, and I'm fairly certain this explanation is more confusing than anything else, but I'm trying to throw this idea down since it entered my mind.  I may try to explain it further at a later date when I have more time and better analogies, I may even try to write some good pieces about this sort of world.  But in the meantime, this is all I've got, partially because of time limit, partially because of lacking mental capacity.  Let me know if you have any thoughts on the matter.