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This past week we were talking about the ever cheerfuly topic of death. I believe, as some have already pointed out, that our class tended to be a little cold about the topic which ended up being disturbing to me. However, this is a class discussion and we are taught most of the time to look objectively at the subjects we study, so it's always a balancing act as to what we should do and say.

Last week was a very interesting week. We talked about bioethics, philosophy, and life on other planets! I was really interested by the conversation about energy and life under the sea and on other planets. I guess I must have made the connection between two of our conversations: the convesation about life tending toward entropy, and the sunlight convo we had on wednesday. Last week we talked about how life tends toward entropy and how we only stay together in our imporbable assemblies because of outside factors. In class we talked about the sun and energy from it as well as water and other resources. I guess it was fun to see how we need sunlight to provide so many things, one of them being heat, but the creatures at the bottom of the sea use the heat from the earth for energy and to live. I was able to see the connections between the components of the earth which allow up to live, their necessity in our assembly, and their temporary effect which ultimately allow us to age and die.