Life and Death.

What is actually life? And are we actually living?
When we are alive, we do things, we breath, we eat etc.
How can something as a we call a "brain" to control this such of things? Or does it?

In the tv series "Ripleys - Blive or Not" they showed a man - a murderer who killed a lot of women. When the police finnaly caught him he have killed more than 25 people.

Later on then want to know if the murderers brain is different compared to a normal persons, they opend him - and the creepiest part:
He didnt have one! . Well this may be fake... but why to do that then? This was early like 16th - 17th centuary.

If you cut off the head on a rooster, they usually run around 20 secs, they are not alive its "only" reflex movement.
But a famous rooster got his head cut off, but he was still alive!
Infact he lived around 4 year without a head. He died because a corn was stucked in the neck. Also from "Ripleys - Belive or Not"

How can those "objects" survive without a brain? As we all know everything is controlled by the brain through electric impulses.

Life on my opinion is no longer unique since we are avaible to clone things - living things, like animals and even Humans soon.
We are also soon though DNA technology avaible to change a humans life - a perfect human. A controled life, we are playing God.

What happens when we die? Do we actually die? The brain may be gone (dead) and the heart stop, but as desribe above...
Are we controlled by another thing? Another part of the body? All parts? Or by a higher force? Do we live again? Or do we only live once?

Now you may think i've seen too much Matrix or played too much The Sims or whatever that may add those stupid taughts...

What are your taughts on Life and Death? Too much sci-Fi? Not much fact? Or is it God?

This questions may not be answered ever or when die. Or shown by a higher force.

About the headless chicken...

They cut of most of the...head. However, the silce intentionally missed the jugular vein, and there's a clot which prevent it from bleeding to death.

The brain stem was remain untouched, therefore the chicken can still perform its reflex actions.

It was fed via its esophagus, with an eyedropper.

Heh, never heard of that shit, pretty neat.

Anyway, I still believe that when we sleep that is our true lives, and when we are awake, we are really dreaming, living out the imperfections our true life won't let us live...

You are born, you eat, you shit, you fall in love, you have kids, you die, they remember you and carry a part of you in them. You live on through the changes you made.
Every second lived is a second closer to death. Every keystroke is another letter closer to the end of the post.
And every day is one more day closer to happiness and new possibility for new changes.