Death / Evolve

From The Wind-up Bird Chronicle (Haruki Murakami)

"If people lived for ever - if they never got any older - if they could just go on living in this world, never dying, always healthy - do you think they'd bother to think hard about things, the way we're doing now? I mean, we think about just about everything, more or less - philosophy, psychology, logic. Religion. Literature. I think, if there were no such thing as death, that complicated thoughts and ideas like that would never come into the world...so we need death to make us evolve. Thats what I think. Death is this huge, bright thing, and the bigger and brighter it is, the more we have to drive ourselves thinking about things."