all this trouble...over an apple?

So lately I have been thinking on the idea of mortality. Not only the fact that it's real, but it's origins, and how we approach it as beings who will one day face the inevitable end to our days in this life. First of all death first originates in the 2nd chapter of Genesis.
Genesis 2:15-17 states The Lord God placed the man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. But the Lord God warned him. "You may freely eat the fruit of every tree in the garden except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die."
I assume all that are reading this account are aware that Adam and Eve were eventually deceived by the serpent and they ate from the very tree that God told them not to, thus predetermining everyone to a life that would end in death. Now I'm just a little confused about why they chose to eat the apple. Aside from God warning them not to eat it, which by the way, immediately makes anything more attractive, apparently even death. However I'm not convinced that even that warning could even make an apple that attractive. An apple? I mean seriously, I could understand if God told them not to eat from the tree and there was nice, thick, juicy steak hanging from the branches of the tree. But, an apple? Who would list an apple as their favorite snack, it is no one's favorite snack.
All kidding aside, death is a part of life. Everyone is predestined to face it and succumb to an end whether it be sooner or later, it will come. Just like anything else we all have a choice in the matter when we are confronted with the reality of death. We can be totally self- centered and angry about it or we can simply accept it and be ready to go at any time.
In the first scenario, I believe we're all products of a society that looks negatively on death, and for good reason, next to everything else we experience it fails to measure up. Let's be honest for a second. Death is inevitable, so why be bitter about something you have no control over. Not to mention that's incredibly self- centered, when were called to be beyond ourselves and love others in this life. What good is a life if it's lived for individual purposes. We're called to expand the kingdom through our relationships with others, so why would we spend our numbered scared and bitter about the last few. Wouldn't be more becoming and more in line with the teachings of Jesus if we would spend our last day just like we did our first. Wouldn't we open more eyes if we continued to be giving, upbeat, and pour into the lives of those around us instead of feeling as if you were owed more days by God.
For the second scenario, it's not meant to sound morbid. Being ready to die simply means that you're a realist. You understand that death is a reality, not a setback. The minute we came into this world we were born into death. It's simply the period at the end of the sentence of our lives. So death shouldn't negatively curb our attitude towards life, but since the period is inevitable what do you want the sentence to say before the punctuation. Life is a gift, not an obligation. God does not owe us anything, as a matter of fact he could snub us out if he wanted, so why be mad at a God who holds your future in his hands? In other words it's a lose, lose situation.
I urge everyone to approach life as an adventure and an opportunity to see God within his own community of believers. Within the commandments Jesus said the two most important were to love God with all your heart and love your neighbor as yourself. So in closing, love,live, and with life to the full may you not regret going into that long good night.