Single-celled Organism Dies [video]

Fascinating that at least according to this video death and dieing appears to be a process instead of an event, even for unicellular organisms. After I learned it was a process, I imagined this was the case only for pluricelular organisms.

We treat it as an event due to cognitive convenience.

does anyone know what is happening to this organism? it looks like the cell wall ruptures?

from the description:

> This is a single-celled organism in the genus Blepharisma and it is dying. I don't find them in my samples often, they usually have pinkish color and they are photophobic it means when the light levels are increased they will try to swim to the darkened areas. If they are exposed to light or starved, they will lose their pinkish color and will look like this one in the video, also strong light can even kill the colored ones. I don't know why this one died but how it dissolves to nothingness just broke my heart. Big or small, life is fragile.