Since times immemorial, philosophers have been struggling to unravel the mysteries of life and death. “What is life, what is its purpose, what was before life and what will be after death” are mind boggling ques- tions and as of today, their answers seem to be as far away as they were on the day one of the universe (if it at all was). Honestly, I am too small a fry to claim fi nal answer to such riddles. However, mine is an humble attempt to explain same ideas in the light of modern game theory which has found wide applications in economics, warfare and many other competitive situ- ations of confl icting interests