life in the particular is fragile, vital organs sewn of tissue that can be undone, skin and skull that can be pierced, cut and crushed and cracked, an unlucky fall, the combination of force and a pointy object; then the drumming of blood and the rise and fall of the chest cavity whose continued motion, even at rest, is indispensable to life's continuation in this one little frail particular.

life in the general is near unstoppable