What bridge? I do not understand what you mean by this "gap."
Did you not say words to the effect that man bridges the gap between temporal and spiritual? Did you not further say that that in effect makes them one? Dear Mark, it seems to me the two cannot be separable while a person lives. For when the soul departs (the spiritual principle), the body (the temporal principle) dies.
Food is not the person, yet without food one dies.
Dear Mark, I wasn't speaking of this or that proximate cause of death. I'm sure we could come up with a very long list; but this wasn't what I was trying to get at.
What I was trying to get at is something utterly basic and profound in its implications: "...everything that lives transforms disorder into order. Everything that dies moves from order to disorder."