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In truth, what can be called death is different in plants, different in the animal, different in the case of human beings. But because in all three a cessation of organic functions is seen, people generalise.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"Lecture One","site_heading":"The Three Cosmic Streams Shaping Human Existence","site_heading_note":"A heading the site wrote for this unit from a summary of it; not in the edition, and not the words of Rudolf Steiner or of the translator. 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