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Death is certainly a topic that has interested us, probably since the earliest camiseta retro barcelona humans who had evolved the intelligence and language to ponder such things walked the Earth. Unfortunately, nobody has returned from that state, at least beyond any reasonable doubt currently acceptable to mainstream medical science, to tell the still living what death and post-death is all about.
Of course there are lots on anecdotal tales of death and post-death (the afterlife) ? religious texts (hundreds of them), tales of ghosts and ghostly hauntings, spirits communicating from beyond the grave, so-called near death experiences (where you get a preview of things to come), perceptions of previous lives (reincarnation) etc. Alas, when crunch comes to crunch, anecdotal tales remain just that, anecdotal tales. Speaking just for myself, I personally can say that (to date) I've never had or experienced any vision or visitation or communication from anyone who has passed away into that great unknown beyond, be they pets or parents, friends or foes. If there is an afterlife and its ‘easy' to crossover and manifest your ‘spirit' back in our dimension, you'd think there would be indisputable evidence for that by now. I mean, you'd think family; loved ones, who have passed on prior to you would, if they could, manifest their spirit selves to you to reassure you about life-after-death, the spirit world, how you get three meals a day, and how everything and everybody is lovey-dovey. So, either there's no afterlife, or, it's not easy to accomplish a spiritual return to say "hi" to previous loved ones.?
One thing is certain, it's a universal fate, something that we will share in common, not only with other humans but with, at least, all other multi-cellular life forms, from mammals to reptiles, amphibians to fish, invertebrates, and much of the plant kingdom as well. You will boldly go where nearly every living thing prior to you has gone before. I say ‘nearly everything' in that unicellular critters that reproduce asexually achieve a sort of immortality. In the sense that you, as a multi-cellular critter die, you ain't unique. You're not being discriminated against! What perhaps makes humans (collectively) unique is that we alone (probably) have a before-the-fact awareness of our demise. I have to admit I have often wondered whether or not any of my companion animals (pets) and by extension the rest of the animal kingdom (at least), have any perception of their death? Alas, I don't have the ability to ask, and they don't have the ability to answer, that question. If they don't, is that perhaps a blessing in disguise??
Death is, at least from an ecological and biological point of view, essential. If multi-cellular living organisms were immortal, what point evolution? Evolution wouldn't happen, indeed couldn't happen. And how would Nature recycle the stuffs essential to future life if said stuffs remained locked up eternally in currently existing life forms? Eventually all essential life-stuffs would be locked away in existing living tissues and no further life forms could camisetas retro barcelona be created as there wouldn't exist any more of the ‘right stuff' to help nueva camiseta del barcelona them on their way!
So, what exactly is death? There's obviously a legal and a medical definition, but it's probably a tad more complicated than the legal and medical niceties make out. I mean when you (legally and medically) die, the entirety of you, in most circumstances, isn't dead ? yet. One minute after your last breath, most of the individual cells that comprise your body are still very much alive (although it's apparently a myth that your hair and fingernails/toenails will continue to grow for a while ? post death).
Leading up to your death, from a whole body point of view, slowly but surely various cells in your body must be dying ? they cease to function ? until some sort of critical number is reached. When that number is reached, you collectively die, even though at that time lots of your cells are still left alive and functional, including, I surmise, some of your brain cells, which I also surmise are the critical ones. Even when pronounced medically dead, at least some of your brain cells are still alive and viable. Your brain just doesn't die on mass as a lump sum in the space of a few seconds.
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