I have managed to hack back into this thing.
"What is life? What is death? If you cut out the heart of a dogfish and drop it into a bucket of warm saline, the heart will continue to beat for up to eight hours. Is that life? Or is it merely "technical life" or "virtual death"? Not long ago, some fossilized lotus seeds known to be thousands of years old were dug from a bog in Manchuria. A botanist chipped away the rocklike outer shell, incubated the seeds in damp cotton wadding. In time, delicate green shoots appeared. He set them out upon a lake. Behold! The lotus bloomed. Time was when one could say with King Lear as he cradled the body of Cordelia: "I know when one is living and when one is not." With the advent of medical technology, that distinction has become blurred."--Dr. Richard Selzer
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