When do you consider life to begin?

Age 5.

I would say it starts somewhere in the middle. It seems pretty obvious to me that we don't have a human life as soon as a sperm cell touches an egg cell - that's just a bunch of cells, nothing like a human life. But we also definitely *do* have a human life before birth, because after 8 months and 3 weeks that baby is almost certainly developed enough to be called a human. Therefore it has to be somewhere in the middle where it stops becoming "just cells" and starts becoming "human life".

I would say life begins at the moment the child could potentially survive outside the womb if it was prematurely born (which is 21 weeks, unbelievable as it seems). If we're going to draw a line anywhere that seems to me like the logical place to draw it.

That certainly isn't a perfect system for deciding when life starts though. That's because as medicine improves babies might be able to be born earlier and earlier, therefore changing the time that life starts. But philosophical questions like "when does life start?" shouldn't depend on the progress of technology, should it? It sounds ridiculous to say that the life of someone born 50 years ago started later than the life of someone born today.

However, that's the best answer I've got :P

Good grief. This is making me think of the PA doctor Gosnell.
The answer is different for everyone. Some say its at conception. Some say its when a heartbeat can be detected. Or around mid-term when the baby could survive outside the womb. Its very subjective.

I heard life begins at 40. And then again at 50. And 60...

Wasn't the Ovum and Spermatozoon alive BEFORE fertilization took place?

This is one of those stupid bible-thumper pseudo-intellectualisms so they can force their moronic beliefs on the rest of us.

Firstly every living cell is technically alive. So your point is absurd. But obviously you're referring to a developing fetus.

The question is not if it's "life" or "alive" but whether or not it is developed enough to be viable. At the stage of a zygote it is nothing but a clump of cells and will continue to be until about the third trimester.

99% of abortions happen in the first trimester so essentially you religious nutjobs are inventing a problem where none exists and your solutions are fascistic and infantile.

You need to find a way to rid yourself of that religion-meme which is eating your brain.

When you stop being dead.

The moment the man buys the woman a drink.

I dunno but I wish it would hurry up

It depends on what you mean by life. I guess, you could say that, technically, your life begins at conception, because then an organism (at first just a cell) can be singled out as you. You can also say, that there is life before conception, if one says that the sperm and egg cells are themselves alive.

You could also move away from such a biological view of things, and understand the word life as something referring to the totality of experiences and emotions of one individual. Then, maybe, life does not begin until some nerve cells have been formed.

If, instead, you mean human life, as in something that is regarded by others as human life and should be shown respect and compassion, I would think it depends on how you look at it. By that, I mean, whether, when you see a picture of an embryo or a fetus, it then looks like a small human being or looks like merely a collection of cells.

I think it is a bad idea to try to figure out an exact moment at which a "life switch is turned on" by means of reasoning.

I remember being a sperm

When you end school.

When I become rich.

Life begins when my sock get pregnant

Some say it begins at conception. I say it begins when the parents even think about having sex.

When the stork drops the baby down the chimney.

At the time at which they are fully developed and can survive outside of the womb, that's when I believe a fetus crosses the line into personhood.

That said, I do believe that life begins with the zygote. Technically it is alive, not some random matter. It's biologically alive. However, it's not a person, in my eyes, until it can be born alive.

After the abortion.

Huh, good question. I guess when you start getting a sense of self. Trying to define who you are, what you like, what your character's like, ect.

When the heart starts.

It really depends on how you look at it. The life of a person begins when the sperm touches the age but its life, though its existence is acknowledged after a certain amount of time, exists only inside of the womb. The offspring isn't properly recognized until after its born. To planet Earth, life doesn't officially begin until you are out of the womb.

When you start being not a idiot

When you stop crying on the bus, its bad enough I can't get a seat but some 1 year old is crying about not having his pre-dildo (or dummie) while I'm suffering.

When my dog bites your ass.

Birth, when it can survive outside the womb.

At the moment of conception. xxx