#define life

– Harvey Fierstein

A few moments define you

They say who you will be

And in those moments

What do you see? Do you see yourself smiling? 

Content with the world

Or see your self crying?

As the pain unfurls Take those moments and decide

What you will do with them

Because there are only a few moments

That resonate within

Me @ the Universe: You know what? Fine. Come at me.

The Universe: Comes at me

Six men and women in their early 20s live in a New York apartment building and maintain close-knit friendships while falling in and out of love with each other.

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How We Define Life

We believe life ends when the heart ceases to beat. Why do we not believe, life begins when the heart begins to beat?

Happy Birthday

I am the result of the wrong time conceived in a moment of passion two wine soaked minds upon a fertile field each combined

In early morn each to their own way unknown to either when their passion died new life arrived

Too soon discovered both agreed it was a mistake easily fixed neither could wait

I will never know my father or loving arms to hold me near I have been given a death sentence with no appeal or prospect for a stay

I will be aborted and flushed away soon to be forgotten no one to care no one to wish me Happy Birthday

The human heart begins to beat at approximately 22 days after conception. The blood being pumped is the child’s own blood and is often a different blood type than the mothers’. In the human, there is limitless debate as to the definition of when life as a human begins. We accept the fact, once the egg is fertilized, there is a high probability that egg will develop into a deliverable human being. The process of human development in the womb is well documented as fact; progressing to term, a human will be delivered. At one time, the womb was sacrosanct. Today the womb is violated at all phases of development to test or study, and too frequently, to disrupt the natural cycle of development that would ultimately have lead to a human delivery.

Currently, we celebrate the beginning of life being when the first breath is taken. Since all human life is dependent upon that first breath, if it never occurs, there is no life, only death. When a child is born, before that first breath, there is a heartbeat. If that first breath does not occur naturally and a heartbeat is present, the medical staff will initiate the process to assist in taking that breath. The physician will not declare that child as deceased until the heart ceases to beat. A child born without a heartbeat is a still born. Even thought there is no heartbeat, there is no breathing, and there is no chance of life beginning, this birth is considered human.

Since there is always a heartbeat before there is a breath, and it is the heart that is the determining factor of the end of life, should it also be what defines life’s beginning?

The heart has been beating, transporting nutrients’, eliminating waste, keeping the child healthy, and performing many other functions for up to 8 months without a breath ever being initiated. It beats through the entire birthing process without requiring a breath. It is beating as the lungs inflate the first time, and it continues to beat after the last breath of life is taken. As long as the heart beats, there is life. When a patient is declared terminal, or is unable to breathe without the aid of a ventilator, the heart continues to try to sustain that life. When the decision is made there is no hope and these patients are no longer artificially supported, it is not the flattening of brain waves or the lack of breathing that defines death…it is that final beating of the heart that finally allows that patient to rest in peace.

If the heart confirms the absence of life, it should therefore determine the presence. Each and every one of us alive today is alive because a heart begins to beat 22 days after we were conceived. We are alive because that heart kept working, keeping us alive throughout the birthing process. We took that first breath because if the heart quit beating, there would be no breath; there would be no life.