Choose Life

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TopicHealth

AuthorLaurent Schwartz

PublisherSouccar Editions

Rethinking the living to overcome the crisis and regain meaning

A humanist essay at the crossroads of science and philosophy.

For more than thirty years, Laurent Schwartz has accompanied patients with cancer. Through observing the living, where it goes awry (the cancer cell), he understood one essential thing: to truly heal, one must first understand. Understand not only the cell that goes off track, but the deep laws that govern life.

From his clinical experience arose a broader question: what if the laws that govern cancer were the same as those that preside over the origin of life, aging, chronic diseases and, by extension, the crises our societies are undergoing?

Laurent Schwartz invites us to shift our perspective. Drawing on biology, thermodynamics and modern physics, he explores the central role of water in living beings, and revisits the hypothesis of the “memory of water.” He suggests that phenomena such as consciousness, memory or the organization of the living would not be explained solely by matter.

This path leads to reopening questions long dismissed from medicine: what is life? The soul? What is the meaning of existence? Is there continuity beyond death? Such a paradigm shift would, in his view, be essential to understand the world that is faltering.

But it is also a path of hope: one that would allow us to find our rightful place in the great story of the living. A way, ultimately, to choose life.