WHAT IS DEATH?
As per Webster’s dictionary, death is “the end of the life of a person or an organism”. An important point to note is that there is no premise of duality between life and death. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of life.
Medically, Death is defined as the termination of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Almost all beings who survive external hazards to their biological functioning eventually die from biological aging, known in life sciences as “senescence”. Some organisms experience negligible senescence, even exhibiting biological immortality like the jellyfish, the hydra, etc. Around the world, more than two thirds die directly or indirectly due to senescence.
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“Life extension would be seen as a return to this golden age,” says Arvind Sharma, a professor of comparative religion at McGill University in Montreal who has written about Hinduism and life extension. It is said that during the time of the Mahabharata, the youngest Pandavas – Nakul and Sahdev- were more than seventy years old. Lord Krishna was ninety years old. Bhisma Pitamah (three generations senior than the Pandavas) could easily have been more than one hundred fifty years old. During those 18 days of battle, none of them ever missed the chanting of holy name. The chanting of holy name produces a positive vibration in the human …show more content…
Ray Kurzweil, an American computer scientist and inventor who is now the director of engineering for Google, says “each new generation of technology grows exponentially in capability and the speed of that process accelerates over time. This accelerating pace of technical change gives biomedical researchers much greater capabilities. For instance, it took us 15 years to sequence HIV; we sequenced SARS in 31 days. Using technology to improve traditional medical research is just the beginning. Soon, technology will give mankind the ability to place powerful machines in the human body to replace or improve existing biological systems. Machines, from pacemakers to cochlear implants, already play a huge role in medicine. Scientists will be able to put microscopic machines in the body – at first to protect and maintain people’s organs and ultimately to effectively replace them. In essence, Kurzweil says, scientists will “reverse engineer” bodily systems so they can be replaced with much more reliable machines. Eventually, he claims, human beings will achieve immortality by fully merging with machines. Once this reverse engineering is complete, not only will human beings be able to live potentially forever, but we “ultimately will be able to vastly expand our
Death is the end of an organism. A person doesn't know when there time is, but they do know that they need to be ready when the time comes. If a person kills someone then that is their responsibility, also. n James Hurst’s short story “The Scarlet Ibis,” the older brother was responsible for Doodle’s death because the brother overwhelmed Doodle,gave no mercy,and left Doodle behind. First, the brother made Doodle overwhelmed.
The reader realizes then that if the intelligence of technology is increasing exponentially it will not be long at all until it exceeds human intelligence. Kurzweil goes on to make his predictions which show that this is happening as he
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The power and capability of technology has grown significantly over the past five years. Further research has been done as these advanced technologies has been implemented into numerous things such as, autonomous driving cars, drones, and robots. These devices are taking over tasks that has been done by humans in the past. These devices soon may be smarter than humans in the future as an event called the singularity may occur. Singularity is the "hypothetical moment in time when artificial intelligence and other technologies have become so advanced that humanity undergoes a dramatic and irreversible change" (oxford).
In life people die. Usually at an old age after they have lived a long life. That's normal. But when people die at a young age, that's different. People who die early miss out on the rest of their lives and they didn't get to experience much of it.
Not many things are constant in life, but one thing that will always remain the same is that everything is forever moving, changing, and passing. My introduction to this concept came at age 11 when my father passed away. I couldn’t help but think why did this happen and why couldn’t I stop it from happening? Unfortunately, death is an event that we will never be able to fully understand, but we can sure try. In efforts to shed some light on the subject the “Museum of Death” founded June, 1995, and located on Hollywood Blvd, is a self guided walking tour exploring death and its many forms.
When we improve and evolve, when do we cease to be human? We have all the gadgets sci-fi movies from less than 50 years ago portrayed: video chat, drones, voice activation, virtual reality, and more. We are already currently creating the next miracle and great fear: self-learning robots. They will challenge our long-held confidence as the intellectual king as the offspring may surpass the parent. This program will allow me to work with those selected as some of the most advanced in their fields of science and technology, combining both factual evidence and differing analyzed perspectives to answer these questions on human identity.
3.2—The Destruction of the Physical Body after Death Death was once defined as the cessation of the heartbeat and of breathing, but breathing and heartbeat can sometimes be restarted through CPR and life support devices such as pace makers. "Brain death" or "biological death" are used today to define a person as being dead. The empirical evidence of death is that breathing brain activity but resuscitation is still possible. This is clinical death.
How do people react to death when it enters their lives and families, their history? How can we move forward when somebody we loved dies? What does death represent? These are just some of the questions everybody asks themselves sooner or later, at least once in their life.
Sometimes relying on something to do a job for you isn’t the best decision to make. In the story “Who Can Replace Man?” by Brian Aldiss, machines are doing all work for mankind. Almost all humans are dead. Human society is conveyed throughout the story’s portrayal of the machine society in many ways. Human’s lives when machines have taken over, are much different and dangerous than they are now.
When we are dead, we will not exist or experience anything. Death is the destination of our life journey on this planet. When we are dead, we are no longer physically present on this planet. To us, everything is over. According to Epicurus, “So death, the most terrifying of evils, is nothing to us, because as long as we exist death is not present, whereas when death is present we do not exist.
The text was written before medical engineering has been a major impact. In the current world we have invented artificial hands, heart valves, and we also trigger artificial intelligence through drugs namely (). One project that is debatable is that of cloning humans. Animals have been cloned and they haven’t had that much of a prolonged life but still humans believe in altering the natural cycle of life and death. Science fiction as well as Isaac Asimov have depicted post humanism before humans wanted to be more than just organic beings but rather a mixture of organic and
The message is simple: we are spirits residing in human bod- ies temporarily. Death is but the demise of the human body, not the destruction of the entire person. In recent years, people have stud- ied the phenomenon of life after death. Raymond A. Moody Jr. approached the subject in his book entitled “Life after Life.” In speaking of death, he states: “If we are to talk of death at all, then we must avoid both social taboos and the deep-seated linguistic dilemmas, which derive from our own experiences.