We all are made of the very same stuff Bits of stars long since shattered in inter-stellar space.
Life is the edge effect caused by the thrust of energy through time.
Space is an illusion used to hold existence. Without space life would not survive. The purpose of life is to describe itself The reason for existence is to give life something to do. Anyone who looks, eventually sees. A person who tills the land, lives in a farm, is called a farmer, and does the farmer thing.