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Don't call it renewal, call it rot. Some things, we let rot. We shouldn't let people rot.
Some people call it stasis, when you're in equilibrium with the system you're in.
People call things a lot of things. People die because of disequilibria in their bodies, because their own internal systems come undone. I care more about the internal systems of humans that break and murder non-sentient cells, than the external systems of nature that break and murder things that can scream.