bellofthedamned wrote:
Perhaps you misunderstand death? It's a heavy responsibility. I doubt it's an "automatic expiration" or all creatures of each race would live to the same age and die.
You are imagining a timer that linearly counts down to zero or something, which is kinda a childish way of looking at death. The truth is that he perfected our modern product engineering principles, where each part is only made just about as strong as necessary so that the overall probability of any one component failing within a certain time frame gives the product the desirable lifetime.
bellofthedamned wrote:
If Exitalis's job was to reign over death, all his time would be devoted to that, measuring out life for the newborns, taking those who died in accidents, and imagine mass-deaths -- he'd have a backlog of dead to deal with. I hardly think it would be a simple job. If anything, I'd wager he'd be damned tired of it.
Once the product dies, the humans throw it in a large pile of other stuff... Why would the god care? It's not like there's any reason he needs to do any recycling, is there?