Category: Life and Death
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Living longer, being sicker, the purpose of life…
The greatest ever study on Disease has shown that humans are progressively living longer, but while being sicker. [1, 2] Medicine has the wrong target because humans have the wrong goal. Our purpose is not to live more. As the Harmonia Philosophica motto at the bottom of the page says, the purpose of life is to be defeated…
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Bella Addormentata, living, dying.
Bella Addormentata, the new film of Marco Bellocchio, draws the audience's attention to the importance of the right to euthanasia. Weird times we live in... A long time ago philosophers pondered on the right to live. Now, having forgotten who we are, we fight for the right to die...
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Science disproves Death... A nice surprise.
A new scientific theory (Biocentrism) refines the notions of space, time and life and makes us see the truth which many people see already: that what we call the "end" is the end only if you believe in humans being nothing more than bones, flesh and blood. [1] Really good news that there are believing…
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Our life is not our own...
Our life is not our own... [Cloud Atlas] As simple as it may sound, this phrase has a profound meaning and can liberate a person from its anxiety. We all talk about "OUR live" as if it is our property. However we do not know why we are here. We do not know where we…
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Immortality: Overrated.
The tiny freshwater polyp Hydra does not show any signs of aging and is potentially immortal. [1] There is a rather simple biological explanation for this: these animals exclusively reproduce by budding rather than by mating. Would we want to be Immortals? Dying is part of life and yet we are so obsessed with bypassing…
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