“Food for Thought”
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LIFE / DEATH
Life
is defined as “state of being alive”. “Alive” in turn is
defined as “alive in life, in vigor”. (Chambers Dictionary)
Death
is the permanent cessation of all bodily functions.
A person is
medically pronounced dead when his heartbeat and breathing movement has
ceased. This happens when the supply of oxygen to the parts of brain
controlling breathing, heart rate, and other vital reflexes have ceased to
function has stopped for five minutes. (MacMillan Encyclopedia, 2002 Edition.)
So you see
science is unable to define either life or death in definite
terms, it is even unable to determine, in the case of “death” what
happens first. Is it the heartbeat which stops first, cutting off supply of
oxygen to brain cells controlling vital reflexes, or conversely, is it the
brain cells which are destroyed first, stopping the heart beat?
As far as
human body is concerned science is able to identify and definite terms all
the stages development of human body from conception to childbirth.
Where
science fails, religion most definitely declares that a person is “alive”
as long as “soul” remains in the body. As soon as the soul leaves
the body the living person becomes “a dead body, a corpse mortal
remains”.
The dead
body is either buried, burnt or exhumed and the prayers are offered for the
deliverance of departed “soul”. Attention to soul is invited
on a separate page.
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Aziz-uz-Zaman
11th Jamadi-U-Owal, 1438, Hijri,
(09th Februaryl, 2017 A.D)
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