Isn't it interesting how there's absolutely no controversy over the time of death, yet we act like the beginning of life is so mysterious?

Isn't it interesting how many people pretend to care about this issue in an election year? FFS. Stop being herded like sheeple.

Actually, there is more than one way to determine time of death. Is it when all the cells are dead? [Then Helen Lacks is still alive and weighing more than any human ever has.] When there is no heartbeat? How about when the individual is brain-dead? [If the last, there are a lot of corpses on YA.]

Where you been, we know the entire reproductive sequence, yes, we know when the beginning of life as science says a human starts...we also know what Privacy is. Life does not make a person..that is a different question. The federal government should uphold a woman's right to privacy. It is a constitutional right. I am not a pro choice or pro life and even if I was, that is my opinion and I do not think it is right to force what my religious beliefs or any beliefs, onto others. This is the business of the women and her spouse or the father but in the end the Feds should stay out of peoples bedrooms and bodies.

Can't figure out if this one is retarded or just plain stupid.

""Let's be honest. We all know it's all about brain activity""

What about single cell animals that have neither a brain or a heart Mr. Smarty Pants ?!?!

What a thoughtful question.

Brain activity seems like a more sensible guideline than heartbeat as to when physical life begins and ends, but in a sense it too is arbitrary in determination of whether a physical body is or is not endowed with "life" in a metaphysical sense. Who can say what "life" in the sense of "ensoulment" or "personhood" actually consists of, how it is to be measured or detected.

Yes, it is interesting.

Actually, brains still show some activity even after death (though not consciousness).

Check out the recent study of decapitated pigs heads and brain activity (at Yale, I believe).