Human life
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“Human life has no more meaning than the life of slime mould.”--Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals (2002) by John Gray "Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent."--variously attributed |
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Human life or simply "life" may refer to
- in philosophy
- the Human condition or "conditio humana"
- discussion of the meaning of life
- personal life, the course of an individual's life, especially when viewed as the sum of personal choices contributing to one's personal identity
- in sociology, everyday life
- in medicine or statistics, the human lifespan
- in jurisprudence, a value protected by human rights (the "right to life")
- Beginning of personhood, arguments dealing with the exact time the human being is to be regarded as a person
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See also
- Human, primates of the family Hominidae, and the only extant species of the genus Homo
- Human (disambiguation)
- Life (disambiguation)
- Biography, a detailed description or account of a person's life
- Autobiography, a self-written account of the life of a person
- Une vie (A Woman's Life) of Guy de Maupassant
- My Life (disambiguation)
- Ars longa, vita brevis, a Latin translation of an aphorism coming originally from Greek. The Latin quote is often rendered in English as "Art is long, life is short"
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