Every death is significant. In multi-player games or real life, every single death matters.
In games, everytime someone dies while they're doing something, a blow is struck to the team. Its effects may not be visible early on, but if you are able to see the big picture, you will find that your team has just lost something.
In DoTA, the effects of each death is usually visible. Towers that may be far from the very mobile frontline suddenly become the frontline. Doubtless, someone will be there as quickly as they can to protect the towers, but the damage would have been done, and the next time the frontline is pushed back again, you'd have lost that 1 second that you may need to kill that last creep attacking it. Usually this 1 second is negligible, but in certain matches, every hit, every second, counts.
And in FPS games like Natural Selection, this is even more true. Each death makes it more likely that the team will lose the important spots of the map.
Like in the Marines, other Marines may not see the effects of their deaths straight away, but the Commander can always see that strategic position that he could have fortified if only that cockeyed player didn't die. A Marine who dies building a Resource Tower is not only feeding the Alien player 3 resources, but also loses the Resource Tower to the Aliens.
And on the Kharaa(Alien) side, since each hive only spawns 1 player per 10s, and the team starts with only 1 hive, each death is a bigger blow to the team. While the Marines may have up to 3 Portals within 5 mins, Aliens will never have their 2nd hive up until the 6th min, usually.
And each time a higher lifeform dies, it is a huge blow to the team. Every higher lifeform requires resources(or money, in a sense) to evolve, and its death means the player will be respawned as the basic Skulk again. And for each death of any lifeforms above the Gorge, the effects can be visible straight away.
The Lerk who's gassing the Marines dies, and suddenly all the Marines are harder to kill since they're no longer being "softened" by the gas.
A Fade, the main killing machine, lowers the killing power of the team drastically with its death.
And an Onos, needless to say, must never die. With its 950hp and 950 armour with Carapace upgrade, it was never meant to be killed. A death of an Onos may cause the team to lose, since it is the meat shield of the team. With the biggest hitbox (surface area where it can be hit), it is meant to draw enemy fire with the sheer ease of hitting it.
And we mustn't forget real life. Truly, all deaths are regrettable. Regardless of the social status of the deceased, it is always a sad event for the world.
Every life has a story and none of them are ever "just some story". These epics are more complex, more unique than any ever written by human hands.
Take for example, your great-grandfather. It doesn't matter who you are.
You may have been told he's some drunkard who died from pneumonia decades ago and basically not much else. You'd be surprised if anyone who knows him better tells you his story.
It is entirely possible he may have been, once upon a time, a salt smuggler in China. Yes, salt was once a valuable commodity that enjoyed it own black market. That would certainly make an incredible story, what with the secret societies and brotherhoods in those days. Who knows, maybe your classmate's granddad was one of your great-grandfather's "brothers".
Or maybe he was a Western pharmacist. Back in those days, that would mean he was well-educated, rich, and knew Latin! But then he probably ended up being a victim of the Cultural Revolution in China. Which explains how he became the drunkard in the end.
Hell, he may be a martial artist, a magician, or the village idiot. Who knows? Though, I'd have to admit, being the village idiot would make his life story much duller than anticipated.
But this is only an example! Once, you may have seen him as "just another guy from back then". In the future, your descendants will see you the same way. Therefore, in the end, everyone is "just another guy". This means everyone's story is an incredible journey not even Tolkien's Lord of the Rings can beat.
Since only a very tiny fraction of all people actually write their own biographies, think of how many masterpieces are being lost each day! All those useful knowledge, experience and wonderful memories, disappears with their last breaths. What's left is the bits and pieces of their lives residing in other people's memories, which will, too, eventually fade away. A heart-rending thought.
The introduction portion of the movie "Idiocracy" does have a point. In a world like ours where the successful people aren't having children, and the poor are mating like rabbits, our world, in the future, may turn out to be the way as the film describes; a world where the President of your country is the 4 times World Wrestling Champion and WWE Superstar. Whoa, just imagine someone like Booker T being the US President... Whoa!
CAN YOU DIG IT... SUCKAAAAAA!!!!!!
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