For millennia, humanity has been faced with the question: what is life? When, how and why did the first living organisms appear on our planet? And is it even on our planet? Or maybe we are children of the great Cosmos? The question about the mystery of the origin of life naturally entails the question about the meaning of death. What is death? A triumph of biological evolution? The price for perfection? And finally, the most significant question arises: what reigns in our world - life or death? An attempt to answer these serious questions has been made in the next issue of our series.