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If one looks at life and death you would think that by now they would be both well defined.

They are not and for that matter neither is the conception of ageing well defined.

What it means to be human no longer abides in a tombstone or headstone or an earn, as our digital footprint resides in the cloud.

However we are evolutionary stuck when it comes to battle old age. That is not to say that immortality could not be achieved if we were to evolve into non biological creatures.

Death would then not be looked upon as final, but as a passing into some other state, with all the ethical complications of a future without religious beliefs.

No one lives life with a predetermined individual life span of time, which is given to him or her by a god or some other biological right.

However it pays to be big rather than small like a may fly.

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Brain dead doesn’t define death either as you could be in a coma for years and come back.

Once apoun a time if you did not have a pulse you were dead , now you can be restore with an electric shock – CPR.

Every biological process that goes on in our bodies is ageing at different speeds with ageing an accumulation of damage cells over time, however most of our organs are still alive when we die.

We can donate them to be transplanted.

Life span is now how long can one possible live. Life expectancy is how long you might live if you don’t have an early death due to an outside cause, such as coat suffocation, car crash, bullet, disaster or sickness or suicidal tendencies.

When you look in a mirror one can see ageing but we only notice it when things start breaking down.

Our living cells start to malfunction, but death is not programmable as aging is going on in every sector of the living body all connected to one another at different speeds. We are made up of trillions of cells, that are dying all the time which we are unaware of.

Honestly we are living longer now than back in Victorian days. More of us can expect to get through earl living due to vaccines, antibiotics, etc to reach 60 odd years.

We are also are able to treat many diseases and cure many illnesses such as cancer, or heart failures. That said evolution only care about reproduction, it doesn’t have some ageing agenda.

So the question becomes is death necessary?

We don’t necessarily die so others can live.

Bacteria is immortal.

Our digital footprints will exist for eternity.

The rest of life also has widespread lifespans but as yet it’s not possible to fit into another life span like a Yardsgumba which is half plant and insect.

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