Do you believe that our bodies are just machines that wear out and die?
154070
Yes i do. I thought i was alone with that. I am working on the energy theory though. Good Question. You intrigue me.
953294
Hi ya\nYes every thing is changing in this world even when i am writing this for you. Our body is changing continously even while we are sleeping and no cells remain same. Yes most of these things can be seen by microscope but some cant be. Even the Dead cells are getting replaced by the new one and wit every second a new life is begaining and some where  its finishing. But dont worry, we usually dont care as we get used to these things and many time we dont even care. Hope this will answer you.\ntake care
49400
It depends on what you consider life.\n\nWhen you die you will shed that body.  Is there something more than just that body there?  I don't know, but if so, as whatever it is it will not be able to interact with the material world as easy as it did.  \n\nIf such things are possible, metaphysicians will figure it out first.  Give metaphysics a read or two.
727228
I think so, because who we are is our mind, and our mind/soul is infinate but this body is finate.
1037234
Nope, all human beings eventully die.  Theres something in our dna that is being chipped/ shortened as the years go by.  It is our death clock.  No one has found a way to stop that.  If stopped, we will become immortals.  Brain information cannot be downloaded and transferred if not we did all become einsteins by now.  We can only monitor brain activity.\n\n\nBut if I could do the following, why not?
710159
As the time goes by our cells decay and we loose them, some of them cells are never replaced and the process of aging starts to cave in, the skin begin to wrinkle and our organs start to slow down functions..☺
1119063
Because of our lifestyles.  It used to be that people died early because they worked so hard and wore their bodies down.  Now it's because of bad eating and lack of exercise.
621467
I would assume it's a built in survival mechanism, allowing our bodies to be signaled that we've overdone it and need to rest and repair before doing it again.
468539
I believe that there will never be something like that invented. However you might cheat a bit (not in the near future). You could use a device that copies everything in your brain everyday. Next you would need something to form your body when you die. That would be best done when you are younger. So when you die a machine automatically brings back you to life and you then go and install your latest memories. In that way you lose only the most important knowledge and that is how and why did you die! Personally I believe that you must not even try to live indefinitely because we are here to evolve and nothing more...
145763
Linmar--i want to propose MY personal theory, which cannot be scientifically proven in any publication to date.  I had a vision one evening after watching a show about spontaneous combustion victims.  One victim was a middle-aged man with a stump for an arm.  He described the event as a mild tingling with no pain, and much to his dismay, his hand and most of his forearm turned to ash.  \n\nUsing his experience, this isn't about fat burning, or too much oxygen, or even about oxidation as we know it.  The material in our bodies has stored chemical potential energy.  We have internal heat generation which keeps our bodies warm.  It is like a clock spring slowly unwinding.\n\nNOW, if you sped up this clock, relative to normal time-space, your energy would dissipate so rapidly, that the object WOULD turn to ash due to the release of heat.  If a human arm dissipates 10 watts every second for the lifetime of the arm, say 70 years, that equals 22*10^9 joules.  THAT"S A LOT OF ENERGY.  Now for instance, if for some reason a time-space continuum intersected with the man, if his arm actually was accidentally inserted into another dimension whose time constant was 100 times our speed, his arm simply aged and died.  All the energy that would have unwound in this time space over the course of 70 years, unwound in minutes or seconds.  If there are time-space defects and other dimensions, it makes sense that entropy may not unwind at the same pace in all spaces.  \n\nIt reminds me that the earth is travelling at thousands of miles per hour through space.  We have no perception of this at all.  But put a cosmic bed post by the earth, and have an impact, BAM!! Bye-bye earth.  I think it is the same thing.  For some unlucky reason, I beleive this particular man had an interdimensional event wherein the potential energy in his arm dissipated very quickly in that other dimension.  \n\nFood for thought--tell me whatchya think.
960214
I think you're right! I also believe that we keep alive far too many people who should have died...like the lady in Florida who was kept alive for years on machines. Poor thing...how undignified. brrrr - gives me chills thinking about it!
83068
people dont die form "old age" theres always a body part/organ/function that goes causing death.
766365
yes we do,, as we become more modern, we cause more, and as we become more modern, our bodies are not as stong or immune, so  poeple become ill more easily, e.g a gardener gets flu less that an office worker, cause his used to working out side in the cold and wet..
632722
We are an effect of nature.  We have bodies because it is the design of how we evolved.  Maybe we will not be corporeal one day.  We control our bodies by thought and reason.  Our brain controls the anatomy of who we are.  What our brain contains in information is how we reason and make decisions.\n\nThe use of the body is more of a spiritual question.  Each person answers that for themselves.\n\nWhat do you think the body is used for?
909513
I used to think so. In 1970 when I was just 18, I got in a fight with two guys three times my size and one threw me up on the hood of my car a 1959 Ford Galaxy and started choking me telling me he was going to kill me while the other one was about to hit me in the face with a baseball bat and I passed out and I thought I saw my whole life pass by me.  I thought I was dead. \n\nI still remember that as if it was yesterday. I don't know if my life really passed by me or if I was jut thinking about my life very fast, but that is what happened. \n\nI don't believe in heaven or hell anymore. I am wiccan now and  I believe in reincarnation until we have learned all the lessons we are meant to learn then on to the Summerland.
604401
blackholes exist.AND the second one,we have energy stored i ourselves in chemical form which we can convert into mechanical form ,like when we run or do any work the chemical energy that we had a part gets converted into mechanical energy.After death chemical energy is still present there with decaying a part of it is being lost to the surrounding thus with time the energy content will decrease.
183869
So are you saying that your organ was old and inactive before adolescence?