response 86 of 254:

Mar 8 20:25 UTC 2006

John, why would you help a child or a woman before a helpless man?

Conception is the fusing of two living cells to make one living cell with the
same total number of chromosomes.  Death is the destruction of one or more
living cells, that need not be independent of other cells (body cells die and
are replaced continuously).  Death of an organism is the end of its ability
to function as a unified whole, leading to the death shortly after of all the
individual cells (loss of ability to function and integrity).