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What is death?
Death is the permanent, irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. The remains of a previously living organism normally begin to decompose shortly after death. Death is an inevitable, universal process that eventually occurs in all living organisms.
Death is generally applied to whole organisms; the similar process seen in individual components of a living organism, such as cells or tissues, is necrosis. Something that is not considered a living organism, such as a virus, can be physically destroyed but is not said to die.
As of the early 21st century, over 150,000 humans die each day.
Many cultures and religions have the idea of an afterlife, and also hold the idea of judgement of good and bad deeds (Heaven, Hell, Karma).
One of the challenges in defining death is in distinguishing it from life. As a point in time, death would seem to refer to the moment at which life ends. Determining when death has occurred is difficult, as cessation of life functions is often not simultaneous across organ systems. Such determination, therefore, requires drawing precise conceptual boundaries between life and death. This is difficult, due to there being little consensus on how to define life.
It is possible to define life in terms of consciousness. When consciousness ceases, a living organism can be said to have died. One of the flaws in this approach is that there are many organisms that are alive but probably not conscious (for example, single-celled organisms). Another problem is in defining consciousness, which has many different definitions given by modern scientists, psychologists and philosophers. Additionally, many religious traditions, including Abrahamic and Dharmic traditions, hold that death does not (or may not) entail the end of consciousness. In certain cultures, death is more of a process than a single event. It implies a slow shift from one spiritual state to another.
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- Bres magazine, March 1988
Sky burial is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds.
For Tibetan Buddhists, sky burial and cremation are templates of instructional teaching on the impermanence of life. Jhator is considered an act of generosity on the part of the deceased, since the deceased and his/her surviving relatives are providing food to sustain living beings.
The world existed before I was born, the world will exist after I die.
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Average life span animals in human years
Bat 24 years
Bear 40 years
Beaver 20 years
Sheep 15 years
Tiger 22 years
Rabbit 9 years
Pigeon 11 years
Mouse 4 years
Grizzly bear 32 years
Goat 15 years
Donkey 45 years
Crocodile 45 years
Hippopotamus 45 years
Giant Tortoise 152 years
Horse 40 years
Fox 14 years
Chipmunk 12 years
Swan 10-12 years
Ox 20 years
Parrot 80 years
Seal 20 years
Wolf 18 years
Squirrel 16 years
Mouse 4 years
Kangaroo 9 years
Polar bear 20 years
Lion 35 years
Leopard 17 years
Lobster 15 years
Ant (Worker) half year
Galapagos Land Tortoise 193 years
Alligator 68 years
Gorilla 20 years
Chimpanzee 40 years
Funerary bed in the form of the sacred cow, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (c.1370-52 BC) New Kingdom, c.1336-1327 BC (gilded & stuccoed wood)
“The cow goddess Mehit-Weret stands tall on the third bed, with the sun disc held between her horns. As the goddess of creation and the floods, two concepts which lay at the heart of Ancient Egyptian beliefs, her skin represents the starry sky with its patchwork appearance owing to trefoils of blue paste. She is also connected to rebirth and resurrection, thanks to her eyes, which are shaped like wedjats, the eyes of Horus.”
