But are we prepared to see people die and their cultures die out?

COBOL is deemed to have died about thirty years ago, but in fact COBOL programmers still can find jobs.

But something is lost when languages die as well - the knowledge held by that community of speakers, much of which may not exist - and sometimes may not be able to be expressed, in other languages.

If we want to find planets that could support life, he says we should look at stars that are dying.

We want to free ourselves from the distractions of the body, but we don't want the body to die, because when the body dies the soul dies as well.