On some Druid website:
Yet die we must. As Sherwin Nuland points out in his book, how to die, we die for the sake of our species; If somehow we found a way to live forever, we would quickly overwhelm the ability of our environment and all perish as lemmings. 'Must', in biological terms, thus carries not only the ordinary meaning of the inevitable, but also a sense of relevance. Our need for death is personified in Herne the Hunter, sometimes called the Celtic Cernunnos. He is the God of slaughter, who takes away life for reasons of health and balance in the world.
Note the uncanny resemblance to an article in the onion wrote a year earlier.
Yahzi Coyote has a saying: "All that is necessary to defeat a theologian must resume its arguments to the producer, by changing the word of God in any other Word." Similarly, all that is necessary to defeat a bio-Ethicist is to imagine his glowing eyes and his voice further each time he mentions death, decay, suffering and need.
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