God Arises
Argument for the Life Hereafter
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dealt with, bit by bit by the body’s own processes,
(sometimes with the help of medical treatment) but,
in any case are eliminated in the course of time,
without either singly or jointly having caused the
onset of death. It is normally much later in life that
death occurs. How then can these injuries,
deficiencies, etc., be held responsible for the death
of the body? This would appear to imply that the
cause of death does not lie in the intestines, veins or
heart, but somewhere else.
Another explanation has it that nerve cells are the
cause of death because they remain unchanged
throughout life and are never replaced. The number
of nerve cells in a human body thus decline year
after year, thereby weakening the nervous system
as a whole. If it is correct to say that the nervous
system is the Achilles’ heel of the human body, it
should conversely, be correct to say that a body
having no nervous system at all should be able to
survive for the longest period of time.
But observation does not support this view. A tree,
which is devoid of a nervous system does survive
much longer than a man, and in fact, survives the
