Philosophy Wire: Defining death… Life… Not knowing...

Should death be defined in strictly biological terms - as the body's failure to maintain integrated functioning of respiration, blood circulation, and neurological activity? Should death be declared on the basis of severe neurological injury even when biological functions remain intact? Or is it essentially a social construct that should be defined in different ways? [1] Trying to define death. Without having defined life. And yet, the only way of living is via not knowing what life is. Just go out and walk on the sand. Feel the ocean on your feet. That thing which you do not comprehend, is you! At some point we will understand death fully. And then, only then, will we start dying for the first time…

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