The Tree Of Life
THE TREE OF LIFE
Nobody denies that - at birth - that a child is alive. So we'll take that as a given.
Prior to birth, there is a live and kicking fetus in the womb - most people would agree that it is alive.
The kicking fetus grows from an initial embryo into what it is - so there is no question that the single-cell embryo itself is alive - because we can't create a living, kicking thing from a dead thing (per definition of what constitutes a living thing).
The embryo itself was created from a sperm and an egg - so there is no question that both the sperm and the egg have life.
Have you ever envisioned a single sperm
struggling upstream - in what must be the
toughest competition of this world - against
millions of other sperms, against one of the
harshest environments there could be - to
reach an eagerly awaiting egg?
It is the best (untold) love story there is.
And they are not alive?
So no. Life does not start at 6 months, 3 months or even at conception stage. Life simply "flows" from the adults into sperms and eggs into embryos and fetuses into little babies. There is simply no specific point in time that an embryo comes alive - because it was always alive. To argue about such a point in time where life started appears arbitrary.
Each day we let billions of sperms and millions of eggs die. Little living pieces of life that we do not fight for. And *all of us* do not even give it much thought.
Each one of us is like an individual leaf at the tip of a branch of the tree of life. The life of an individual leaf eventually ends. Or does it? - Long before the body dies, it has passed on some of its life to new leaves. So does it really end? Life flows from our parents, to us and then on to our children. Even if one has no children, it just means that life stopped flowing just along one path.
There is no beginning and no end to life. Life just flows through us.
-------------- (Tree image courtesy of Internet.)
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