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Near Life
Death is not the End
As science blurs the line between life and death, we find ourselves confronting a new reality — one where cells reorganize, consciousness bends, and mortality is a moving target.
Life is weird. One scientist said it, the universe more precisely, which encompasses life, was not only queerer than you think, but it was queerer than you can think. And yes, he used those precise words, and they were used semantically correct, and it is true, life is weirder than the ‘English’ words and colloquialisms that Americans and the British speak. It’s the same language but someone is misspelling things. Someone is driving on the wrong side of the road. Jokes aside, a 4 minute article discussing a study on the reality of the after life being real says it’s crazier than you think. Precisely, they say it gets even weirder. Seriously, can things be any weirder than they are now? And if you dived in and were shocked, absolutely shocked, well, what did you expect from a scientist?
Now, for the shockingly, sneaky, unreasonable thing some folks do. They’re not talking about an afterlife where your soul goes when your body dies. It’s a discussion about how some organs linger, and how some cells mutate and change and reorganize into new…