Death Is The End Of Life

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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

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