DEFINITION OF LIFE🌱

It refers to that which distinguishes the kingdoms animal, vegetable, fungi, protists, archaea and bacteria from the rest of the natural realities. It implies the capacities to be born, to grow, to metabolize, to respond to external stimuli, to reproduce and to die.

La vida también es el estado de actividad de los seres orgánicos y la fuerza interna que permite obrar a aquel que la posee. Otra forma de interpretar la vida está vinculada a la capacidad de un ser físico de administrar sus recursos internos para adaptarse a los cambios que se producen en su medio.

When we see a man walking or a dog running, it is undoubted that we are before beings with life. It is more complex, on the other hand, to determine when life begins and when it ends. Religious questions are mixed with science to affirm (or deny) that life begins from the first moment of fertilization, which would be tantamount to affirming that abortion is unfailingly a murder (it ends with a life). Other positions maintain that the fetus in its early stages can not be considered a living being.

Something similar happens with death (that is, the end of life). The irreversible cessation of brain activity (known as brain death) is equivalent to science as the end of life, even if the person continues to breathe.

In this sense, we have to make clear that there are many ways that a person's life comes to an end. However, when this occurs voluntarily on the part of that is because he has opted for suicide. Personal, work or family problems are usually the most frequent causes that lead someone to make the decision to end their existence.

However, we can not forget that there is another term closely related to life and death. We are referring to euthanasia. This can be defined as the action carried out by a person with the clear objective of avoiding suffering to another individual who is in the last moments of their existence.

That is, that person is accelerating the death of that being who is suffering painfully. You can do it well with the patient's consent or simply by personal decision.

Euthanasia is one of the issues that has raised the most controversy in recent decades around the world, establishing two opposing sections: those who defend it and those who reject it fully. In the first case, they argue that it is synonymous with dignity with respect to human life, while those who oppose it consider that carrying it out is an attempt against the inviolability of life.