Friday, 15 September 2017

Can you consider a human as alive, or is it the cells on the body that are alive?



Sorry if this question seems strange, but in the recent time I have been interested in the question of what life is and how you can define life.


My question: How long can individual cells live on a human body from the point the human dies? When a human dies, legally he is dead, but how is the medical explaination? Can a human be partly dead, that the heart and brain has stopped, but the cells on the body are still alive?


When you talk about a human life, is it one life or could you consider each cell on the body as a living piece and the whole human body itself including the consciousness is just a container for the cells?




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