List alternatives to death.?

I watched a very interesting Documentary on the Medical Channel one night, and it dealt with stem cell research. In this particular episode, Opthamologists were attempting to restore the sight in the eyes of a blind man who had been blind since he was a teenager. There was major amounts of scar tissue all over his corneas.

They concentrated on one eye at a time, and used stem cells from an embryo to try to get the eye repaired. That surgery did not work. In a second attempt they removed the old scar tissue, and spliced cadaveric cornea and stem cells together over the old cornea. The procedure was intricate and long, AND it worked. At that airing, only one eye was done. He was due to have the same procedure done as soon as that one totally healed. He had 20 20 vision in the repaired eye.

Given that, wouldn't stem cell research open a path to immortality in the future? Organs and bones, visceral tissues, etc...all without having to use anti-rejection drugs...extending the life of whatever body part happened to fail.

The natural death of the body entails that a natural shutdown occurs in body chemistry and organs resulting in organ failure, etc. I'm not the smartest person in the world, but it does seem to me that if stem-cells could aid the blindman and enable him to see, would it not also aid the dying and enable them to live? Doesn't cryogenics involve freezing the body at the point of death so that it can be unfrozen in the future and hopefully resurrected from it's dead state?...in case a cure has been found for whatever caused it' demise? That would be useful, I suppose, but what about the damage to the internal organs? I, personally, would rank Stem-cell procedures as a 10 on that scale you mentioned, and cryogenics closer to the 0 you suggested for Death. How about Cloning? There has been a lot of research in that area, and from what I understand, cloning has been successful on the Human level. It certainly has been on the animal level.

There's probably other things I haven't even heard of or could possibly fathom. However, if I had my druthers in it all, I would opt for the Spiritual experience...allowing my body to die it's natural death at its appointed time, and achieving Everlasting Life through the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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0. Death

1. Cremation - destruction of the physical body.

2. Traditional burial without embalming - natural decay ensues.

3. Traditional burial with embalming - preserves some body parts with removal of other parts.

4. Mummification - preserves body, again with removal of certain parts.

5. Skeleton preservation - preserves the body's framework.

6. Taxidermy for humans? - preserves the outer appearance.

7. Honey bath - preserves the body for years (as supposedly used on Alexander the Great).

8. Cryogenics - freezes the body, requires constant temperature, large storage area.

9. Plasticization - covers the whole body with plastic. Retains whole body, decay very nil, minimal care.

10. Fountain of Youth - maintains the vigour of the body; remains undiscovered.

People weren't meant to live forever. Everyone is going to (or should) die eventually. God's plan is not for us to live here on Earth and wander around forever. Personally, I wouldn't want to live forever anyway because eventually the Earth will be destroyed with "advances" like these. To me they're just a giant step backwards. All I can say is I hope I'm just a skeleton in the ground by the time the world comes to an end, and that my family tree has ended, too. I couldn't bear to watch my great, great, great, great, great grandchild get blown up along with the rest of the planet.

Back to the main topic, all human beings are mortals. Get used to it. Trying to live forever is going against God, for which people will be punished. When they fail at their attempts and finally do die, they will have to live (not in a physical body, however) forever with the Devil.

I personally like the idea of "downloading" our consciousness into some type of (computer?) technology. That is, the idea that technology will reach a point where we can map the configuration of the neurons in our brains. A copy of our personal neuron configuration can then be replicated on some other medium and "energized" again.

I think that you would be wise to pursue another path in life other than philosopy. To be or Not to be. That is the question.

Certainly there are many around the world working diligently to expand the lifespan of the human existance but to what end.

I guess there are maybe three states of existance. IE :I AM, I WAS, I AM NOT.

you ask a list alternatives to death... are you saying that there are possibly other outcomes to our demise? we as biological beings have a beginning and thus follow nature's path to our existence, to an inevitable end. Can it be prolonged...possibly yes but up to a point.. and thus our bodies reaches its epiphany.. to be what we have been created of....star dust.

but what of our essence as living beings,,, as living entities, living ENERGY.... science dictates, energy does not end..it only changes and is transformed into another.... in this manner we are eternal.....

Is it the soul...life energy....electro-ephimeral being...celestial....re-incarnation...it has many names. this part is held as to be the foundation of our beleifs, our ways of dealing with death..... some ignored it ...others make altars to it..we sing to it...dance to it..cry over it and even others make a party out of it.... we each deal with the outcome when it comes...in our own way.

i say WE are eternal ..... in a way ..as long as we are remembered by those we touched.. or have a remembrance of our lives in their thoughts.

Um, is there an actual *question* that you were going to ask?

And one more, MARRIAGE.

"All thing must pass."