It would be equally valid, Col K, to say this: The moment we are born we start living!

Since you have a choice, why choose to focus on the negative aspect? That strikes me as a sort of cheerless way of looking at things.

But I understand the intriguing nature of argumentation itself...when one has put forward any rational premise, one then is inclined to continue arguing to strengthen it.

So here's another rational premise:

1. When we are born, we start living.

2. Our life begins with an upward curve, moving toward more expanded life. That cannot be characterized as dying, for it is the very opposite of dying. It is expansion into greater life.

3. The dying process you are alluding to when you say that we are "dying from the moment we're born" does not, in fact, begin until one has passed one's prime, beginning the descent into middle age and old age. That is when things begin to lessen and diminish, that is when cells begin to die off and not be replicated, and that, I submit, is the process of dying.

4. Therefore we do not in fact begin to die until we have passed the midpoint of our lives, just as a sine curve does not begin to descend until it has passed the midpoint of the curve. Life is a process of expansion. Death is a process of contraction. Just like a breath. Just like the waves rolling in and out on the shore. Just like the breathing of the entire universe, as far as that goes. Our Universe, according to science is still expanding out in every direction. It has not yet begun to die. When it does, it will contract back toward its point of origin, finally to an infinitessimally tiny point.

And then.....?   BOOM!!! LET THERE BE LIGHT! That's when new life emerges, quite unexpected from the dark, dense doorway that looked like it would stay shut for eternity.

I figure that the Universe reincarnates too, you see... ;-D But it takes a lot longer than we do, that's all.