Beyond Life and Death

The Coceivability of a Disembodied Personal Life Beyond Death Based on David Lund’s Views

As science focuses exclusively on the physical, it seems to assume that the brain has a key role in the origin if not also the constitution of our consciousness; and thus the destruction of the brain, the nervous system, and the body makes it pointless or even absurd to think of any personal consciousness after death. But one need not be convinced by this. However, any effort to investigate a p...

Comparison of Quality of Life, Life Satisfaction and Death Anxiety among Intra-Oriented and Outward Elderly

The purpose of this study was to compare the quality of life, life satisfaction, and death anxiety among internally oriented and out-of-home elderly in the home and home of the elderly in Kermanshah in 1396. The statistical population of the study included all elderly people in Kermanshah. A total of 168 people were selected through cluster sampling and elderly residents of the elderly in an ac...

Relitigating life and death.

Life, Death, and Intelligence

Worms, Life and Death

I never expected to spend most of my life studying worms. However, when it came time for me to choose an area for my postdoctoral research, I was intrigued both with the problems of neurobiology and with the approaches of genetics. Having heard that a new “genetic organism” with a remarkably simple nervous system was being explored by Sydney Brenner – the microscopic soil nematode Caenorhabditi...