True Biological death

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the post wasn't meant to hurt any feelings.
it was merely to show that these people that say "i do not fear death" are also lovers of life.
it basically boils down to your character, courageous or wimpy.
i've been in situations where a cool head saved my life, i didn't have to fight for it.
when a person points a gun at you and says he intends to use it . . .
well, suffice it to say i seen my first truely white person.

No worries, Leo, I didn't take it wrong. I simply wanted to explain that's there can be more than one reason for not fearing death - and to explain my own very personal reasons for not fearing it myself.

 

[youreyes]

Well, by that definition, many people will never die; freezing cord blood is not uncommon nowadays, and that has a very long shelf life. But that's not what most people think of as "living."

You missed the point of the necessity of the cells from original body to actually be responsible for every cell in the body. Freezing blood and using it for a living body of another organism is just as having a donor organ.

 

[Helina84]

In order for the organism to completely die, all the cells of the body must die. Correct?

If that is the case, no father and mother ever biologically died, if their child survived and passed on to new generations.

The father passes on his one sperm cell to the development of a child.
The mother passes on her egg to development of a child.

Both of those cells pass their genetic material to every cell of their future child, thus in a way replicating themselves.
The result is that both the mother and father never really die. In addition to those cells becoming alive, they give rise to consciousness, something we all possess.

So why are we so afraid of death if we clearly know that we reincarnate? (Forget memories, those are passed to the child when parents are alive)

Your post is wrong on so many levels..First, what do you consider death? For me it is the permanent loss of consiousness, e.g if enough brain cells die that's it you are dead..Even if someone clones you and even it somehow replicates memories to the clone it will still be a new person!

The father passes on his one sperm cell to the development of a child.
The mother passes on her egg to development of a child.

Yes but the resulting offspring has different DNA, a combination of both.. So again it is still a totally different person. So the father and mother die and there is no continuum!

 

[Buddha12]

right.
all it takes is for you to make one step to keep from being splattered and you want us to believe you won't take it?

I'm not stupid and would not tread where I knew a problem might be found. I'd rather live my life carefully and prepaired for things that might arise. We all take a risk everytime we drive our vehicles, fly on a plane, take walks on public roads and a hole host of other things. That doesn't mean that we are trying to kill ourselves by knowingly getting into a car and driving it are we? I'm just saying that if my life should end, through whatever means, I am not affraid to die.

 

[leopold]

. . . I am not affraid to die.

i always considered myself a wimp.
i always though i would cry like a baby and start praying to god.
when i was actually faced with the situation things were very different than what i imagined.

 

[spidergoat]

In order for the organism to completely die, all the cells of the body must die. Correct?

If that is the case, no father and mother ever biologically died, if their child survived and passed on to new generations.

The father passes on his one sperm cell to the development of a child.
The mother passes on her egg to development of a child.

Both of those cells pass their genetic material to every cell of their future child, thus in a way replicating themselves.
The result is that both the mother and father never really die. In addition to those cells becoming alive, they give rise to consciousness, something we all possess.

So why are we so afraid of death if we clearly know that we reincarnate? (Forget memories, those are passed to the child when parents are alive)

That's true, but not very encouraging when one is nearly making that transformation. I mean, what if you have no children?

 

[kwhilborn]

The OP is suggesting that since a sperm cell and egg are living cells from a parent, then as long as the child lives then the parents cannot truly die. This was carried over fro another thread where I ridiculed the idea.

For or Against this "concept" (please note quotation marks).

 

[youreyes]

That's true, but not very encouraging when one is nearly making that transformation. I mean, what if you have no children?

it seems to me that the result would be loss of consciousness for that genetic line, perhaps one can experience regardless of time, thus revert back to any past ancestors in past genetic line who have offspring alive currently. That is my best guess. Perhaps the true death is not having children...

 

[LaurieAG]

That's true, but not very encouraging when one is nearly making that transformation. I mean, what if you have no children?

Don't forget identical twin brothers or sisters if you are female.