Death may be one of life’s most predictable surprises, yet it has also become one of the most compelling frontiers of scientific inquiry. Our bodies, and our lives, tell a story of cellular creation and destruction that stretches back to Earth’s primordial oceans. But when we trace the interwoven thread of beginnings and endings in search of death’s origins, nature, and meaning, we find that no single definition, or even a single interpretation, will do. There seems to be not one death but an endless variety of them, each prompting new questions about how well we understand its counterpart: life.
In Endless Endings, Ricard Solé takes death as a unifying thread to examine the many forms it can take, and the questions at the cutting edge of science that they raise. Solé shows that the ways life ends are every bit as varied and compelling as life itself.
Endless Endings is available through various booksellers, as well as the Princeton University Press