Questions Regarding Health in Light of Spiritual Science

However, we should not learn more from such a case than to respect the individual nature of human beings. We should not derive a new dogma from it; that would lead us into one-sidedness. If we consider what caused death in this case, we can answer the question in the following way. If you remember what was said last time in the lecture on nutrition, you can conclude the following: What we call life processes lead the plant to a certain point; it processes lifeless matter into a living organism. This process is continued in the human organism. In a certain sense, what the human and animal organisms do is a breakdown of what the plant has built up. In a certain sense, the human and animal bodies are based on the breakdown and destruction of what the plant has built up.