Issues relating to life and death can be scientific, especially if they affect the quality and quantity of academic output.
Issues relating to life and death can be scientific, especially if they affect the quality and quantity of academic output.
Dear Prof. @Karl Pfeifer, you seem to be very alive and I wish you good health and all the best!! Would be interested to read an article of yours, if it is understandable by an rather somple life scientist! Kind regards, Christian Meyer
I think that in my life I have many 'debt' to a lot of people that I can't pay it. From my family, mother, father, etc. And also to the science and technologies inventor that I can use their product with 'cheap price' if compare their effort, dedication, and altruism for welfare and better life of human being. We can get vaccination that protect ourselves from diseases without "make it" alone with very difficult procedure and much cost also spend a lot of time, we can use internet, smartphone easily without think it very hard how to make it, etc. So I think that in my life I have to become a good person, also can contribute to the others with my competencies and capabilities, effort to make my father and mother happy. So at the future they can RIP (Rest in Peace) when they already not live in our "now habitat (earth) anymore.
Life and death are in co-existence. In the natural world, old leaves wither and fall off from the branches of the tree so they new ones can sprout. A severely injured lion will wander off and die slowly on its own to prevent itself from being a burden on the pride. In the scientific realm of humanity we sometimes struggle in getting the right decision on who gets to live further and who should cease to exist whenever the proper resources (medicine, food, clean water, shelter, security, safety, etc.,) are scarce to serve all.
The question of life and death is very critical in declaring brain death
As long as we are alive we can strive to achieve what we want, help others also to do the same. Death is the final exit of this physical form and to be honoured and remembered after death would depend upon the number of good deeds we have done during our lifetime.
Rekha Rani Koduganti
Even bad deeds of any person in their lifetime are remembered forever for many years after death because it will be inherited to their children automatically/ default.
In one's life if a person cheats others, their children will be cheated.
Rekha Rani Koduganti
A murderer after his/her death will be remembered on his/her memorial / death anniversaries.
All the best
We all agree that death is a fact that no one can deny.
But why thinking About Death Will Make Your Life Better.
1. Thinking about death motivates us.
2. Thinking about death reminds us to not sweat the small stuff.
3. Thinking about death helps us appreciate the present and be mindful.
4. Thinking about death helps us negotiate our death anxiety and feel more prepared for our exit from this earth.
5. Thinking about death allows us to remember what's really important to us and live intentionally.
All the best
https://www.mindbodygreen.com/0-14057/5-reasons-thinking-about-death-will-make-your-life-better.html
For me, life is a small period in which we try to rebuild the land, achieve justice and serve human societies. Death is not the end, it is the beginning of eternal life.
There are lots of scientific issues pertaining to life and death; here's a few, for example:
- Sociology and psychology of death and bereavement
- Demographics and mortality
- Criteria for clinical death
- Astrobiology, exobiology: possible chemistries of non-carbon-based self-replication
- Cryopreservation and reanimation
But the scientists in this thread seem mostly concerned with expressing New Age platitudes.
Yes, thinking about death allows us to remember what's really important to us and live intentionally.
Simply life is the opposite of death,I prefer spending the time we have in studying life than death (the unknown side) once we go there we will see.
Death reminds- "an inescapable form that can change a person's livelihood; thou few know what the end would be".
“In my next life I want to live my life backwards. You start out dead and get that out of the way. Then you wake up in an old people's home feeling better every day. You get kicked out for being too healthy, go collect your pension, and then when you start work, you get a gold watch and a party on your first day. You work for 40 years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You party, drink alcohol, and are generally promiscuous, then you are ready for high school. You then go to primary school, you become a kid, you play. You have no responsibilities, you become a baby until you are born. And then you spend your last 9 months floating in luxurious spa-like conditions with central heating and room service on tap, larger quarters every day and then Voila! You finish off as an orgasm!”
― Woody Allen
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