God to Jesus. I just condemned the human race. Now go die to save them.

[Angrboda]

As this post seems to be about death, I would like to run a few ideas past you. Ain't death weird, the two types of physical death, destruction of the body by disease or injury and built in obsolescence. The first understandable, the second an evolved attribute picked up around our jelly fish stage, without which evolution wouldn't work, or rather work as well. We can look at a person and guess to within a few years there age, yet other than our hearts neurons and the lens of our eyes there is no part of us older than ten years.

Then there is what we are, energy, OK there is some argument as to whether mass being composed of energy has been proved, but mass or energy both are eternal have no beginning or end. So the intellect, consciousness, soul what ever you call the essential you, that hides behind the eyes is the same. It changes is it absorbed, diffused, or could it be saved like we do on our various media. I say if you want to see ghosts just watch an old movie.

I think this points to an aspect of the nature of life that is often overlooked. And questions such as, would it be immoral to turn off the power to a self aware computer or not, put it in some relief. I think any concept of life, getting away from fixation on such things as DNA, being systems, and substrates such as carbon and silicon, has to include sustainability in the mix. An animal, or a plant, is considered alive because its basic form will continue, failing some sort of trauma or other defect. A sunflower today will be manufacturing sugars to continue building its structure, tomorrow, the next day, and so on. Same with an animal. This leaves some questions unanswered, such as the self-aware computer, or is the earth itself a life form, but I think it brings us closer to a workable demarcation between life and non-life.