AOKid writes:
Cellular death is organism death doku.
This is not true. Blood cells have an average life of 4 months. You are saying that when one of my blood cells dies, I die. Science has had problems trying to define death because new technologies have extended life past previous definitions. New definitions rely on the cessation of brain activity and function. What is to stop science from keeping a brain alive indefinitely?
Huh? Comuters die? Cars die? What branch of science do you come from? The literary sciences....I mean arts. Death in the way you used it is a metaphor. Computers aren't alive and neither are cars. I hate to break that to you. Therefore, your whole logical anaology breaks down. Sorry.
The analogy still holds. The machine's functions stop. The cell's functions stop.
I think science is neutral on this subject.
How is science neutral on this?
Wiki on Death writes:
The chief concern of medical science has been to postpone and avert death.
So you must believe in immortality? Infinitely long telomeres. That's an interesting mythological concept.
Actually yes I do. there is scienctific evidence for it. Here are 2 examples:
1. The
hydra is a radially symetrical organism ranging in size from 1mm-20mm. Hydras do not age. They are biologically immortal.
2. Did you know that some cultivars of grapes are
clones that have existed for thousands of years? Did you know every Granny Smith apple comes from a single chance plant that was grown in 1868 in Austailia by Maria Ann Smith? You cannot grow a Granny Smith or any other variety of apple from seed. Wouldn't you agree that is immortality?
Infinitely long telomeres.
The telomeres do not have to be infinitely long, just infinitely extended.