Ignoring the minority views, we can conceive of life as a line segment. An isomorphism necessarily exists by which we can map the segment to a unit circle, superimposing the two endpoints and realizing that birth is in fact death. It s one of those lines on a weather map. Heck, I don t know. Let me try again.
Life is a path along the road of time marked by certain salient events called rites.
This nomenclature has been the latest assault of the P.C. forces, who claim that it is discriminatory against left-handed people. Once the battle was defined, ambidextrous people, unable to pick a side, argued that they were being marginalized by the debate and demanded to be heard. Then the hermaphrodites, arguably confused, joined the fray. The end result is that we now speak of life as a sequence of salient events. These events include such things as birth, graduation from high school, dropping out of college, overdosing on black tar heroin, and death.