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The question of life and death has been a subject for every poet to write on, for every theologian to postulate upon, for the philosophers and authors to write of, and for every person who has ever thought about meaning and purpose. There are numerous inquiries into this matter. Poets have gone so far as to say that there is no meaning to life without death, and some writers have even gone to glamorize the idea of death. To any conscious being, be they mammalian or reptilian, the idea of death of always feared. In an advanced society of civilization, it is probably only a natural eventuality that some beings would try to cope with this one thing that cannot be avoided. It's sort of demeaning to us, though. In our technological state of affairs, where you can travel to any part of the globe in only a few hours, whereas it would take years only several centuries ago. Yet, in the amazement of our understanding of science, there is nothing we can do to stop the onset of death.