
At Life’s End – Mungi’s question can easily be interpreted as to what happens to one’s own existence as their life ends, but Mother Nature, perhaps not incorrectly knowing Mungi’s meaning, responds with what occurs at the end of all life. The answer is existence continues carrying on without life, unaware that it is gone or that it even breathed in the first place. What remains are the laws of nature ceaselessly and unalterably continuing until the entropic end. The end itself being determined by and subject to those same laws of nature, obeying to the very last and into eternity the dictates of inertia. Or perhaps the universe is cyclical and after it collapses in on itself then subsequently exploding in another Big Bang, Mother Nature will, in fact, return. Either way it is nice to know that with the death of all life the old maxim will still be followed and Mother Nature will turn off the lights before leaving. – Zachary